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New Trial Ordered in Washington Strip Cell Conditions Suit
Loaded on May 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2004, page 26
The Ninth circuit court of appeals has reversed for a new trial a Washington state prisoner's claim that he was placed in barbaric strip cell conditions for ten days because the district court allowed prejudicial hearsay testimony to be admitted in the jury trial held before judge Franklin Burgess in …
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Conditions of Confinement,
Food,
Exposure to Cold,
Clothing,
Strip Cells,
Bedding,
Hygiene Supplies,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Witnesses.
Location:
Washington.
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