Legal Opinion
Sivak v. State
Idaho Court of Appeals
Decided June 19, 1986No. 16120PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
Lacey Sivak, an inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, appeals from an order of the district court which affirmed a magistrate’s order quashing Sivak’s petition for the return of personal property confiscated by the Idaho Department of Corrections. We affirm for the reasons stated below.
The record reveals the following facts. Sivak was sentenced to death after he was found guilty by a jury of first degree murder. In early January 1984, two weeks prior to his scheduled execution date, Sivak was moved from his death row cell to a “death watch” cell to await his execution. When he…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Balla v. Idaho State Board of CorrectionsDistrict Court, D. Idaho · 1984
- Harry Northern v. Louis S. NelsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Martin v. SpaldingIdaho Court of Appeals · 1998
- Freeman v. State, Department of CorrectionsIdaho Court of Appeals · 1988
- Sivak v. StateIdaho Court of Appeals · 1997