Anthony Souza v. Anthony P. Travisono
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court holding that, as a matter of constitutional right under the sixth and fourteenth amendments, appellee inmates of the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.) must be permitted reasonable access to law student assistants of attorneys engaged in the preparation, handling and disposi tion of the inmates’ legal problems. 1 In their complaint, the inmates had sought to enjoin as unconstitutional an unwritten administrative policy recently promulgated by A.C.I. Warden James W. Mullen, which assertedly had…
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