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Law Practice,
Criminal

Sep. 3, 2020

Tulare County sheriff ordered not to keep attorneys from talking to jail inmates

U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd of the Eastern District of California issued the temporary restraining order against Sheriff Michael Boudreaux after attorneys with the ACLU and Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP sued, alleging conditions inside the jails are unsafe and that their clients have been retaliated against for speaking with attorneys about them.

The Tulare County sheriff was ordered by a federal judge Wednesday to eliminate barriers for attorneys to confidentially speak with their clients in the county's three jails and to stop intimidating inmates who want to have these conversations.

U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd of the Eastern District of California issued the temporary restraining order against Sheriff...

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