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Felony Trial for Planted Knife Is Malicious Prosecution
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1999, page 5
Felony Trial for Planted Knife is Malicious Prosecution
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Malicious Prosecution,
Cell Searches,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
Colorado.
In an unpublished opinion, the Tenth Circuit held that a felony prosecution for possession of a knife planted by a guard in a prisoner's cell in retaliation for complaining about the guard was malicious prosecution.
Construing the facts as favorably as possible ...
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