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Some Evidence Must Support Guilty Finding

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News September, 1995, page 11
Filed under: Informants (Disciplinary Hearings), Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings), Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Standard of Proof, Disciplinary Appeals, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Supervisory Liability, Judicial Immunity. Location: New York.
When prison officials violate clearly defined procedural due process standards in a prison disciplinary hearing, they are not immune from § 1983 liability. Frederick Gilbert is a New York state prisoner. After 25 tape decks and 37 AC adapters were stolen from the prison's school program two confidential informants claimed …

 

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