UNITED STATES v. MILLS

Nos. 82-1206, 82-1278.

810 F.2d 907 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Eugene MILLS, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard Raymond PIERCE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Drooyan, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Charles P. Diamond, M. Randall Oppenheimer, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant Mills.

Edwin S. Saul, Encino, Cal., for defendant-appellant Pierce.

Before KENNEDY, TANG and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

Facts and Procedural Background

On August 22, 1979, Thomas Hall was stabbed to death at Lompoc prison. The following day, after being questioned about the murder, appellants Mills and Pierce were placed in administrative segregation. They remained there until they were arraigned on April 21, 1980, an eight-month period in which prison officials prevented them from communicating with anyone outside the unit in which they were confined...

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