Larson v. Schuetzle

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Reuben Larson sought a writ of certiorari asking the district court to declare that the penitentiary warden exceeded his jurisdiction and violated Larson’s constitutional rights in the application of the prisoner disciplinary rules. The district court denied Larson’s application for the writ and he appealed. We affirm.

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[¶ 2] Larson is a prisoner at the North Dakota State Penitentiary in Bismarck. Larson possessed, in his prison cell, some religious magazines given to him by other inmates. Larson also had a picture of an American flag, which he cut out of a…