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Section 1983 Not Estopped by State Court Ruling
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 4
Santiago Ramirez is a New York state prisoner. An informant told a prison sergeant that Ramirez had a shank concealed in his cell. Acting on this information Ramirez's cell was searched and a shank was found. Ramirez was infracted and at his disciplinary hearing he requested that the sergeant and …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Damages,
Estoppell.
Location:
New York.
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