Legal Opinion
California First Amendment Coalition v. Woodford
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 2002No. 00-16752PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the restriction on viewing lethal injection executions imposed on the public and the press by San Quentin Institutional Procedure 770. We hold that Procedure 770 is an exaggerated, unreasonable response to prison officials’ legitimate concerns about the safety of prison staff and thereby unconstitutionally restricts the public’s First Amendment right to view executions from the moment the *871condemned is escorted into the execution chamber.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In assessing the reasonableness of Procedure 770’s viewing restriction, it…
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