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Fourth Circuit Refuses to Hold North Carolina Liable After State Prisoner Murders Guard
Loaded on July 25, 2022
by Harold Hempstead
by Harold Hempstead
On November 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that no civil rights violation had been committed by North Carolina officials in the murder of a guard at the hands of a state prisoner at Bertie Correction Institution (BCI).
After the guard, ...
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