WOODS

v.

RHAY, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT

Citator

Cited By (15 total)

• McCUISTON v. Wanicka, 483 So. 2d 489 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986)
  …oth the United States and state of Florida. First, we address the objections predicated upon the federal constitution. Even prisoners enjoy a constitutional right of “access to the courts.” Coleman v. Peyton, 362 F. 2d 905 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 905, 87 S.Ct. 216, 17 L.Ed.2d 135 (1966). Though not among the rights specifically set forth in the Bill of Rights, the right of access to the courts stems from the first amendment right to petition for redress of grievances. Thompson. Such right may…
• Peterson v. Isadore Nadler, 452 F.2d 754 (8th Cir. 1971)
  …remedy civil wrongs. Hill v. Gentry, 280 F. 2d 88, 89 (8 Cir. 1960), cert. denied, 364 U.S. 875, 81 S.Ct. 119, 5 L.Ed.2d 96. See also Cancino v. Sanchez, 379 F. 2d 808 (9 Cir. 1967); Coleman v. Peyton, 362 F. 2d 905, 907 (4 Cir. 1966), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 905, 87 S.Ct. 216, 17 L.Ed.2d 135; Marsh v. Moore, 325 F.Supp. 392, 394 (D.C.Mass.1971). To delay the action until plaintiff is released from prison could conceivably forever deny his securing presently available evidence which he alleges is necessary…
• DeBERRY v. Wolff, 513 F.2d 1336 (8th Cir. 1975)
  …California, 168 U.S. 640, 641, 18 S.Ct. 242, 42 L.Ed. 610 (1898); Higgins v. Wainwright, 424 F. 2d 177, 178 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 905, 91 S.Ct. 145, 27 L.Ed.2d 142 (1970); Poulson v. Turner, 359 F. 2d 588, 591 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 905, 87 S.Ct. 219, 17 L.Ed.2d 136 (1966); Gist v. Oklahoma, 371 F.Supp. 541, 542 (E.D.Okl.1974). Here the defendant did request the lesser included offense instruction; and this case is, therefore, distinguishable on that fact from Higgins, Poulson and…