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Pro Se Prisoner Demonstrated Need for Recruitment of Counsel
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2018, page 56
Filed under:
Appointment of Counsel.
Location:
Wisconsin.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court abused its discretion when it denied a Wisconsin prisoner’s repeated motions to recruit counsel.
Before the appellate court was a case involving prisoner Randy McCaa, whose 2016 civil rights complaint alleged that prison officials at the Green Bay Correctional ...
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