Supreme Court of the United States

Hunt v. Cromartie

April 24, 2001532 U.S. 234

Summary

The Court held that prisoners have no freestanding First Amendment right to provide legal assistance to other inmates that receives greater protection than other prisoner communications. The ordinary deferential Turner standard governs, and the case was remanded for application of that standard to the challenged regulations. The Court declined to decide whether the regulations were valid as applied to Murphy.