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Cell Search, Property Seizure Suit Set for Trial
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 23
Cell Search, Property Seizure Suit Set For Trial
Filed under:
Cell Searches,
Court Access,
Legal Materials,
Complaints,
Discovery,
Prisoner Property.
Location:
Delaware.
A federal district court in Delaware held that summary judgment was not appropriate to decide if a prisoner's cell had been illegally searched and his papers improperly seized. Michael Jordan, a Delaware prisoner, filed suits against three Delaware prison guards who allegedly …
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