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En banc Seventh Circuit rejects federal death row inmate's constitutional challenge to a policy that prohibits federal death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates

En banc Seventh Circuit rejects federal death row inmate's constitutional challenge to a policy that prohibits federal death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews with the media and from talking with the media about other inmates: Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote the en banc majority opinion. The en banc court's vote in favor of this outcome was 5-3, with three other judges not participating in the decision.

The three dissenters from today's en banc ruling were the same three judges who joined in a unanimous three-judge panel opinion issued in January 2008 that had reinstated (until vacated by the order granting rehearing en banc) the prisoner's lawsuit challenging the policy. My earlier coverage of that ruling appears at this link.

You can access the en banc oral argument audio via this link (10.6MB mp3 audio file).

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).