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Opening Legal Mail Outside BOP Prisoner’s Presence States Constitutional Claim
Loaded on May 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2010, page 48
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court decision denying qualified immunity to several Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees accused of opening properly marked legal mail outside a prisoner’s presence. Robert Merriweather, who was formerly incarcerated at the Federal ...
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