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Error to Dismiss Rule 41(C) Motion Without Allowing Conversion to Bivens Action
Loaded on June 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1999, page 26
Error to Dismiss Rule 41(c) Motion Without Allowing Conversion to Bivens Action The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's motion under Rule 41(c), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, without first giving him an opportunity to amend the motion and ...
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