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Seventh Circuit Rejects Federal Prisoner’s Necessity Defense

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News January, 2008, page 36
Filed under: Discrimination, Gang Policies, Body Cavity Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Defenses. Location: Illinois.
Seventh Circuit Rejects Federal Prisoner's Necessity Defense

The Seventh Circuit found that a federal prisoner had failed to prove the requisite elements of the "necessity" defense in a prison weapon possession prosecution.

In 1992, David Sahakian was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and was confined at the United …

 

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