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Jodi is serving a 5 year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. She is incarcerated in the only institution for females in the state. Jodi is feels as though her constitutional rights have been trampled several times especially when they search her cell. Jodi feels that the correctional officers do not treat the inmates properly, and she has had enough. She plans to attempt to file a lawsuit.
Jodi would not have always had the right to sue for constitutional right violations of inmates. Which court case gave Jodi this right?
a. Procunier v. Martinez (1974)
b. Cooper v. Pate (1964)
c. Theriault v. Carlson (1977)
d. Cruz v. Beto (1972)

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