Herbert Daniel Dettmer v. Robert Landon, Director of Corrections

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• holding that prison officials could not deny religious articles to Wiccans based on the officials’ conception of what constitutes a religion
• holding that prison officials could not deny religious articles to Wiccans based on the officials' conception of what constitutes a religion
• including Africa in a string cite as support for the proposition religious doctrines concern ultimate questions of human life
• describing prison security official’s opinion that candles “can be used as timing devices and to make impressions of keys” and that incense “can be used to disguise the odor of marijuana”
• prison officials may not deny religious articles to Wiccans based on officials’ definition of what constitutes a religion
• after considering the three Malnak indicia, concluding the Church of Wicca is a religion protected by the First Amendment

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