Legal Opinion
Steven R. Wycoff v. Paul Hedgepeth Burton, Ltd. Debbie Nichols Ron Welder Dan Deuse Ruth McVey
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1994No. 93-1610PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
When prison investigators found alarming materials in inmate Steven Wyeoffs personal effects, including directions for making bombs, Deputy Warden Paul Hedgepeth authorized the investigators to seize Wyeoffs legal papers and search them outside his presence. Wycoff now appeals the district court’s 1 decision not to hold defendants in contempt of the consent decree entered in Dee v. Brewer, Civ. No. 77-102-1 (S.D.Iowa July 25, 1980), which severely limits the right of Iowa prison officials to search an inmate’s legal papers. We affirm.
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On October 5, 1992, Wycoff was placed…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- State v. HartzogWashington Supreme Court · 1981
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