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Second Circuit: No Error in Blocking New York Parolee from Attending His Own Civil Rights Trial Against Prison Officials

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2021 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News January, 2021, page 60
Filed under: Parole Conditions, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, Defendant's Right to Testify. Location: New York.

by Matt Clarke

On July 12, 2020, the Second Circuit court of appeals held that a federal court did not commit error when it denied a New York parolee’s motion to order parole officials to allow him to attend the trial of a prison conditions civil rights lawsuit …

 

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