Legal Opinion
Walter M. Guyer v. Jeffrey A. Beard
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 22, 1990No. 89-3658PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Walter Guyer, who was incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cresson, Pennsylvania, refused to sign a form power of attorney consenting to the receipt of his mail by prison officials because he claimed that it interfered with his right of access to the *1426courts. As a result, the prison returned Guyer’s mail, including correspondence from the federal courts, to the post office marked “refused.” After Guyer filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the court…
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