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Ninth Circuit Denies Arizona Prisoner Access to Dedicated Discharge Account
Loaded on July 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2011, page 47
In a September 27, 2010 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s order denying Arizona prisoner Timmy Lee Ward access to a dedicated discharge account while he was still imprisoned.Ward alleged that since his 197-year sentence made it unlikely that he would be released from ...
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