Legal Opinion
Cheryl Simpson v. County of Cape Girardeau
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 2, 2018No. 16-3682PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit judge;
Cheryl. Simpson brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the County of Cape Girardeau, Missouri (“Cape Girardeau”), alleging that the Cape Girardeau County Jail’s postcard-only incoming-mail policy for non-privileged mail violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by im-permissibly-restricting her ability to communicate with .her son, Trey Simpson, who was then an. inmate. At trial, Ms. Simpson attempted to introduce incoming-mail policies from other institutions that permit inmates to receive multi-page letters in envelopes as evidence that Cape Girar-deau’s…
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