A federal judge has refused a request by Connecticut officials to dismiss two remaining claims in a lawsuit by a death row inmate who says prison officials improperly confiscated his pornographic magazines.
U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill on Monday denied a motion to dismiss filed by the state attorney general's office in the lawsuit by Richard Reynolds. Underhill earlier dismissed several other claims by Reynolds.
Reynolds was convicted of killing Waterbury police Officer Walter T. Williams in 1992.
State officials wanted the only remaining allegations dismissed, including that prison officials violated Reynolds' constitutional rights in 2010 when they seized the magazines from his cell and required all death row inmates to be put in restraints while being escorted to and from their cells.
State prisons banned pornographic materials in 2012.
