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Drug Addiction Disability Cannot Be Used to Deny Parole
Loaded on March 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2003, page 18
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Injunctions,
Parole,
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Mental Health,
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
Location:
California.
The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals held that California life prisoners could not be denied parole because of a drug addition disability that fell within the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Charles Thompson and Stephen Bogovich, serving 15-life terms for second degree …
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