Legal Opinion
Mahers v. Hedgepeth
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 16, 1994No. 94-1455PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Deputy Warden Paul Hedgepeth appeals a district court order holding him in civil contempt for the manner in which security officers at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) searched certain inmates’ legal papers. Concluding that the district court punished Hed-gepeth for conduct not clearly prohibited by *1274the 1980 consent decree in Dee v. Brewer, we reverse.
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On March 17,1993, ISP officials received a confidential informant’s tip that inmate Ronald A. Mahers had received “a bag of dope” the previous evening. Security officers decided to conduct a shakedown search of Mah-ers’s…
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