Skip navigation
× You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.

Ninth Circuit Holds Staff Sexual Abuse Presumed Coercive; State Bears Burden of Rebutting Presumption

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a district court erred when finding a prisoner could not state an Eighth Amendment sex abuse claim because he “consented” to a relationship with a prison guard.

In 2002, Idaho prisoner Lance Wood and guard Sandra De Martin began a romantic, ...

 

Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.

As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.

Subscribe today

Already a subscriber? Login