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VP's Drug Dealer Retaliation Claim Ordered to Trial
Loaded on March 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 31
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Access to Media.
Location:
District of Columbia.
In a case that has continued on and on like the Energizer Bunny, the District of Columbia has denied the Bureau of Prisons defendants' latest motion for summary judgment and ordered a trial. This case was filed in 1990 by Brett Kimberlin, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution …
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