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BOP Prisoner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim in Guard Murder Rejected

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Restraints, Court Access, Court Appearances. Location: Washington.

Scott Fountain, a federal prisoner and a member of the Aryan Brotherhood,
was convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1986 in the control unit at
the US Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. In 1997, he moved to vacate his
sentence, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, in federal district court. ...

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