Smith v. Peebles’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. “[A] prisoner has a constitutional right to institute and prosecute a civil action seeking redress for injury or damage to his person or property, or for the vindication of any other legal right; however, this is a qualified and restricted right. [[Image here]] [Ajbsent unusual circumstances, prisoners who have filed their civil complaints, unrelated to the legality of their convictions and who have thus protected themselves against the running of any statute of limitations, will not be afforded the opportunity to appear in court to present their cases during their prison terms. Instead such matters will be held in abeyance until the prisoner shall have been released from prison and is in a position to prepare and present his case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Logan v. Winstead