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Pro Se Detainee Has Access Rights
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1993, page 3
A detainee held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) at San Diego, named Gust Janis, was awaiting trial on federal drug manufacturing and possession charges. Janis was also involved in a number of other criminal and civil cases, telling the court he has some sixty-seven civil actions pending. Janis filed ...
Filed under:
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Photocopies,
Mootness,
Telephones,
Attorney Calls.
Location:
California.
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