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Alaska Supreme Court Reverses Disciplinary Case Where Prisoner Not Allowed to Call Witnesses
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2018
by Matthew Clarke, David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2018, page 20
Filed under:
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings).
Location:
Alaska.
by Matt Clarke and David Reutter
On April 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Alaska held that a prisoner had been improperly denied his right to call witnesses at a prison disciplinary hearing, and his failure to raise that issue during administrative appeals did not waive the issue.
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