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· 6/1/1987

Joseph Young v. James Rabideau and Stephen Washington

Citations

  • 821 F.2d 373
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 7446
  • 23 Fed. R. Serv. 4

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing admission of plaintiff’s prison 18 disciplinary records “as a valid evidentiary method of contradicting his explanations of his ‘unintentional’ actions”
  • evidence of an inmate's prior misconduct admissible to rebut inmate's assertion that he grabbed a chain out of a prison guard's hand accidentally, or by reflex

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Judges: Cummings, Flaum, Grant

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