Cooper v. State

Plaintiff-appellant Guy Donovan Cooper, an inmate at the Idaho State Penitentiary (hereinafter appellant), filed on his own behalf two petitions for writs -of habeas corpus with the district court. In his petitions appellant did not question the legality of his conviction or sentence, but rather attacked only the conditions of his confinement. 1 In essence both petitions alleged that appellant had been denied adequate medical care since arriving at the state penitentiary in 1972, despite his repeated requests for medical treatment. The district court without a hearing entered an order denying…