Williams v. Leeke

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

These consolidated cases from Virginia and South Carolina involve claims that prisoners were denied adfequate access to legal materials by the states, and hence the right of access to the courts guaranteed them by Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977). In all four cases the complaints were dismissed. In the cases of Williams, Hughes and Armstrong, we affirm the dismissal of the complaint. In the Brown case, we remand the case to the district court for further findings of fact.

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Williams is confined in the South Carolina Maximum Detention…