Legal Opinion
Spear v. Sowders
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 19, 1995No. 93-5528PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MERRITT, C.J., KENNEDY, MILBURN, NELSON, RYAN, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, and BATCHELDER, JJ., joined. JONES, J. (pp. 634r-36), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which MARTIN, DAUGHTREY, and MOORE, JJ., joined.
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Tina Spear1 wanted to visit a Kentucky prison inmate. Believing that she could be bringing drugs into the prison, the prison staff refused to allow her to visit unless she submitted to a strip and body cavity search, and refused to allow her to leave without a similar…
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