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WA Powell Update
This is to update you on recent developments in the Powell case on retroactive application of SHB 1457 to mandatory life term prisoners.
As you know, earlier this year the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear the case. So, on April 10, 1995, we filed a petition for Writ of Certiorari ...
As you know, earlier this year the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear the case. So, on April 10, 1995, we filed a petition for Writ of Certiorari ...
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- No Immunity for Cold Filthy Cell
- MO Hair Cut Rule Violates RFRA
- Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims
- Excessive Force Jury Instructions Affirmed
- Pen, Photocopies and Exercise Must Be Provided
- Retaliatory Infractions Illegal
- WA Powell Update, by John Midgley
- Delay in Hearing States Claim
- Bye Bye Mike
- VA Guards Indicted in Beatings
- WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010
- DOJ Issues Guidelines for Seizing and Searching Computers
- AZ DOC Takes Weights
- VA Jails Sue State Prisons
- DOJ Sues MT DOC
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- Grand Jury Slams FL Prison, Again, by Paul Wright
- Prison TV: Aid and Comfort to the Enemy, by Adrian Lomax
- Just Say "No?", by Phillip McLaughlin
- The New Politics of Crime, by Dan Pens
- Grievance Policy Modified
- Attention Prisoners Convicted of Drug Offenses!
- News in Brief
- Forfeiture and Double Jeopardy, by Jeffrey Steinborn
- New Habeas Book
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Two Strikes and You're Out - of Prison Space
- True Lies in Philly
- The Last Mile, by Johnny "Byrd Dog" Byrd
- Gangs in OH, by Reader Mail
- Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC, by Reader Mail
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- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Magistrate Judges in Federal Courts, Nov. 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Damages, Aug. 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, April 15, 2003
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Dec. 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Unknown Defendant Identities, July 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Feb. 15, 2002
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, June 15, 2001
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, Dec. 15, 2000
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