Jeffries v. Reed

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• Cutting down barrels of pens deemed justified in light of prison officials’ security concerns
• Death Row inmates are not a suspect class and restrictions on contact between death row inmates and other prisoners is reasonable means of providing heightened security.
• “[C]onditions of incarceration. .., including, .. . lack of 8 || a desk, shelves, mirrors, and hangers in the cell . . . do not rise to the level of an 9 || Eighth Amendment violation.”
• “Under Rule 52, the court conducts what is 21 essentially a bench trial on the record, evaluating the persuasiveness of conflicting testimony and deciding which is more likely true.” (citing Kearney v. Standard Ins. Co., 175 F.3d 1084, 1094–95 (9th Cir. 22 1999))

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