VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge.
In 1974, petitioner Wheeler was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by the district court of the Western District of Washington. Two weeks after sentencing, Judge William N. Goodwin, the trial judge, issued an order directing Wheeler's custodian to prevent Wheeler from communicating with ten named individuals. The judge entered the order without prior notice to Wheeler and without a hearing at which Wheeler...
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