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COFFIN v. MURRAY

Nos. 92-6630, 92-6631.

983 F.2d 563 (1992)

Dexter Drake COFFIN, III; Doe; Joe, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Edward W. MURRAY; Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; E.C. Morris, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; Lou Ann White, Manager, Classification and Records Unit, Court and Legal Services, Virginia Department of Corrections; Unknown Administrative Personnel, Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellants. Dexter Drake COFFIN, III; Doe; Joe, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Edward W. MURRAY; Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; E.C. Morris, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; Lou Ann White, Manager, Classification and Records Unit, Court and Legal Services, Virginia Department of Corrections; Unknown Administrative Personnel, Virginia Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1992.

As Amended January 22, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reneen Evat Hewlett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Richmond, VA, argued (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, William R. Coleman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., on brief), for respondents.

Dexter Drake Coffin, III, petitioner pro se, argued.

Steven David Rosenfield, Charlottesville, VA, argued for petitioners.

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

The Director and other officials of the Virginia Department of Corrections appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia granting writs of habeas corpus and declaratory and injunctive relief to appellees Dexter D. Coffin, III, Doe, and Joe, inmates confined within the Virginia Department of Corrections system. The district court held that appellees' Fourteenth Amendment rights...

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