Is a guard reading a prisoner's mail sufficient to establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Hayes v. Idaho Corr. Ctr., 849 F.3d 1204 (9th Cir. 2017):

In Nordstrom v. Ryan , we recently held that a single instance of a guard reading a prisoner's mail was sufficient to establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.5 762 F.3d 903. We recognized that

[849 F.3d 1209]

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