Charles Smith v. Fulton Rabalais, Jr.

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• holding that court must uphold prison administrator's decision unless arbitrary and capricious
• recognizing the discretion of prison officials to restrict inmate access to evidence supplied by a confidential informant
• approving use of correction officer’s testimony that he knew informers, used them in past, and that they had first hand knowledge of the incident as sole evidence against inmate
• approving a procedure based on an officer’s assertions of first-hand knowledge of the informant’s reliability
• finding no violation of due process when the investigating officer “was asked if he knew the informers, if he had used them in the past, and if the informers had firsthand knowledge, and he replied in the affirmative in each instance”
• transfer to maximum security is “obviously a deprivation of ‘liberty’ ” and entitles prisoner to minimal due process, citing Wolff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).