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Self-Defense: A New Jersey Prisoner’s Right
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 29
Self-Defense: A New Jersey Prisoner's Right
Filed under:
Written Findings,
Civil Procedure,
Defenses,
Failure to Protect (Transgender).
Location:
New Jersey.
A New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, has held that a prisoner has a right to self-defense while incarcerated. Thus, a hearing officer must make specific findings when a self-defense theory is asserted.
The ruling came in an action filed by Michael DeCamp, who ...
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