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Denial of Counsel Reversed
Loaded on May 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1998, page 23
The court of appeals for the third circuit held that a district court abused its discretion in refusing to appoint counsel to an indigent pro se prisoner litigant. Paul Parham, a Pennsylvania state prisoner, filed suit after receiving inadequate medical treatment for tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Marshall Johnson, the ...
Filed under:
Medication,
Hearing,
Appointment of Counsel,
Civil Procedure,
Expert Witnesses.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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