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Incarcerated Juveniles Have Right to Court Access
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 2
In a still developing area of the law, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that juvenile prisoners have a constitutional right of access to the courts. To make this right meaningful, the state must provide juveniles with access to attorneys. This opinion joins the First Circuit and a district ...
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