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Disciplinary Finding Must Be Supported by Reliable Evidence
Loaded on May 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1997, page 20
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that while only "some evidence" is required to uphold a finding of guilt in a prison disciplinary hearing, that evidence must be reliable. Michael Meeks is an Indiana state prisoner who was infracted for allegedly smoking marijuana. After a urinalysis test …
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