Legal Opinion
Alston v. Read
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 14, 2011No. 10-15332PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether state prison officials had a clearly established duty to seek out original court records in response to a prisoner’s unsupported assertion that he was being overdetained in violation of the United States Constitution.
I
A
Cornelius Alston was twice sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the Hawaii state prison system under two separate, unrelated sentencing orders. He was convicted of second-degree robbery in 1991. While on parole from the robbery sentence in 1997, he was convicted of two counts of promoting a dangerous drug and was…
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