Billy Ray Dawson v. William French Smith and Harold G. Miller

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• suggesting that only those procedures specifically mandated by the Supreme Court are required in prison disciplinary proceedings
• suggesting that only those procedures specifically mandated by the Supreme Court are required in prison disciplinary proceedings
• deferring to prison officials’ judgment concerning confidential information disclosure and concluding that “we leave it to prison officials to make judgments in these sensitive matters; as all too often they happen to be matters of life and death” (cleaned up)
• In camera review determined that providing the inmate with “more specific factual information ... would seriously risk exposing the confidential informant’s identity.”
• In camera review determined that providing the inmate with \more specific factual information ... would seriously risk exposing the confidential informant's identity.\
• due process complied with where committee adopted reliability determination of investigator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).