IN RE FRENCH

Docket Nos. 19330, 19886, 19596, 19885.

106 Cal.App.3d 74 (1980)

164 Cal. Rptr. 800

In re RICHARD T. FRENCH et al., on Habeas Corpus. In re CARLIN CARPENTER et al., on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

May 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Clifford K. Thompson, Jr., Gloria F. DeHart and Karl S. Mayer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Appellant.

Michael Satris, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Donald Specter for Respondents.


OPINION

RHODES, J.*

Five prisoners at San Quentin State Prison brought these lawsuits after spouses or friends were indefinitely excluded from the prison following refusals by the visitors, all women, to submit to fully unclothed body searches. The searches were requested because prison authorities suspected the women of attempting to bring contraband into the prison. (1a) We hold, in accord...

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