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McMILLAN v. CARLSON

No. 74-1024.

493 F.2d 1217 (1974)

George McMILLAN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Norman CARLSON, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1974.

Judgment Entered July 30, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Jaffe, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., Leonard Schaitman, and Neil H. Koslowe, Attys., Dept. of Justice on brief, for defendant-appellant.

Herman Schwartz, Edward I. Koren, Amherst, N. Y., and John Reinstein, Boston, Mass., on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff McMillan is a recognized author who has a contract with an established publisher to write a biography of James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King. He wishes to interview Ray's brother John, now in the Federal Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois. In accordance with standing prison rules he has been allowed to correspond with him, but the district court has found, on adequate evidence, that plaintiff has a reasonable belief that...

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