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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by jacquesm on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:54AM (#21711136)
Good question, that's outside of my area of expertise, but my assumption would be that the justice system would at least allow you to communicate with your - prospective - lawyers. If not then it's a lost battle before it has begun.
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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by Cougher on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:24AM (#21711519)
It didn't work out that way in my case. Prison/jail phone systems are a wreck. I wasn't able to contact my attorney and when I brought this up to the corrections officers, they said that I had no right to. Whether this was true or just the whim of guards who take inflicting abuse as a perk of the job, the end result was the same.
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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by jacquesm on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:26AM (#21711527)
That's utterly disgusting.
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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by m0zg on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:21PM (#21718190)
"Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?"
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