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· 1/17/2002

Clyde Piggie v. Daniel McBride Superintendent

Citations

  • 277 F.3d 922
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 723
  • 2002 WL 59238

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a request for evidence is timely if it is made \either before or at the hearing\
  • noting that prison officials \may not arbitrarily refuse to consider exculpatory evidence simply because other evidence in the record suggests guilt\ (internal quotations omitted)
  • observing that prison disciplinary boards are not “courts for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)”
  • acknowledging that, if the petitioner failed to request video evidence “either before or at the hearing, then the [respondents] could not have denied him due process by not considering the request”
  • a request is timely if it is made \either before or at the hearing.\
  • “We agree that if [an inmate] fails to make such a request either before or at the hearing, then the [disciplinary committee] could not have denied him due process by not considering the request.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Manion, Rovner

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