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Biased Hearing Officer Violates Due Process
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 9
Biased hearing Officer Violates Due Process
Filed under:
Transfers,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Hearing Officers,
Appointment of Counsel,
Parole.
Location:
Illinois.
Robert Ramirez is a federal prisoner. He had been imprisoned at the US penitentiary in Marion, IL, and had gone through that prison's transfer process and was moved to Leavenworth. While at Leavenworth Ramirez was infracted for involvement in a drug operation and was …
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