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Montana: Hospitalized Prisoner Entitled to Continuance in Divorce Case
Loaded on April 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2014, page 30
Filed under:
Court Appearances.
Location:
Montana.
The Montana Supreme Court held on March 5, 2013 that refusing to grant a hospitalized prisoner’s motion for continuance of a divorce trial was an abuse of discretion.
David and Lori Eslick were married on August 15, 2005. In December 2010, David began serving a sentence in the Montana State ...
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