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Book Review: The Disciplinary Self-Help Litigation Manual: A Guided Tour of Wonderland
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004
by Stuart G. Friedman
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2004, page 19
by Dan Manville, 350 pages, paperback
Filed under:
Reviews,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Disciplinary Strategies,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
United States of America.
Review by Stuart G. Friedman
As any criminal litigator knows, dealing with prison issues feels like jumping through the looking glass and into Wonderland. Despite court statements suggesting that only a high school education is necessary to cope with this area of law,1 the …
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