YELLOWBEAR v. LAMPERT

No. 12-8048.

741 F.3d 48 (2014)

Andrew J. YELLOWBEAR, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert O. LAMPERT, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections; Steve Hargett, Warden, Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 23, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean Connelly of Reilly Pozner LLP, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Melissa E. Westby , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Peter K. Michael , Attorney General, and John D. Rossetti , Deputy Attorney General, with her on the brief), Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before GORSUCH and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and JACKSON, District Judge.


GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

Andrew Yellowbear will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. Time he must serve for murdering his daughter. With that much lying behind and still before him, Mr. Yellowbear has found sustenance in his faith. No one doubts the sincerity of his religious beliefs or that they are the reason he seeks access to his prison's sweat lodge — a house of prayer and meditation the prison has supplied...

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