Holt v. Pitts

Before: MERRITT, MARTIN, and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam. This is a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C.§ 1983. Gary Holt, an indigent federal prisoner, claims that his first and fourteenth amendment rights were infringed when, as a prisoner in a Tennessee county jail awaiting trial, the sheriff denied him access to certain personal law-related books. The district court found that although denied access to his books, Holt's constitutionally-guaranteed right to access to the courts had not been abridged because he had been afforded adequate assistance of legal counsel. We affirm.