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SHELDON v. HUNDLEY

No. 95-2057SI.

83 F.3d 231 (1996)

David Allen SHELDON, Appellant, v. Thomas E. HUNDLEY; Grabowski, sued as Major Grabowski; Charles Harper, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 7, 1996.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Whiston, Iowa City, IA, argued, for appellant.

William A. Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellee.

Before FAGG, JOHN R. GIBSON, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges.

FAGG, Circuit Judge.

David Allen Sheldon, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), mailed a letter to an inmate-produced publication at another prison. In the letter's postscript, Sheldon had written, "We have your [expletive] warden Thomas E. Hundley, ... you could have kept him." After prison officials seized the letter, Sheldon was found guilty of violating an ISP rule against verbal abuse. As a result, Sheldon received fifteen days of disciplinary detention...

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