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Informants Must Be Reliable

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News August, 1991, page 4
Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Informants (Disciplinary Hearings). Location: Oklahoma.
Albert Taylor is an Oklahoma state prisoner who filed a §1983 suit claiming his right to due process was violated when a prison disciplinary committee found him guilty of participating in a riot based on a statement from a confidential informant. The district court dismissed the complaint, later converted to …

 

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