Legal Opinion
Stephen C. Leonard v. Crispus C. Nix
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 10, 1995No. 94-1364PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Stephen C. Leonard appeals the district court’s1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Leonard asserts that Iowa prison officials violated his First Amendment rights by disciplining him for using abusive and defamatory language. The district court found no First Amendment violation, and we affirm.
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Petitioner Stephen C. Leonard, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), wrote two letters purportedly as “jailhouse lawyer communications” to a former inmate, Daniel “Flash” Berkenbile, who was then residing in Davenport, Iowa. In the first…
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