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Texas Parole Case Reversed
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 8
In the October, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the class action suit Johnson v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice, 910 F. Supp. 1208 (WD TX 1995) in which a federal district court in Texas ordered the state parole board to not consider "protest letters" unless the letters were disclosed ...
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Victims,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Costs,
Disclosure of Records,
Parole.
Location:
Texas.
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