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State v. Cuypers

Citations

  • 481 N.W.2d 553
  • 1992 Minn. LEXIS 66
  • 1992 WL 40722

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that search of the outgoing mail of a pretrial detainee based on known jail security and safety regulations was not an unreasonable search
  • stating that “[i]nmates in Minnesota jails and prisons . . . retain those constitutional rights that are not inconsistent with their status as prisoners and that do not interfere with legitimate concerns for security and safety within the institution”
  • no constitutional violation when letters inspected according to valid jail regulation that furthers institutional security
  • jail inmate’s “reasonable expectation of privacy is necessarily restricted” and not violated when jailers seized his letters “pursuant to a constitutionally valid jail regulation”

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Judges: Wahl

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