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Convict Entitled To Have Officer Called As Witness At Hearing, And To Have Independent Evaluation Of Informant's Allegations
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1991, page 6
Convict Entitled To Have Officer Called As Witness At Hearing, And To Have
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
New York.
Independent Evaluation Of Informant's Allegations
A prisoner at Sing Sing filed a federal civil rights suit challenging the constitutional sufficiency of the disciplinary hearing which found him guilty of assault on another inmate. The hearing officer had …
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