Gilberto Silva v. T.L. Casey Charles J. Scully Thomas A. Coughlin, Iii, and Donald Selsky

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• holding “that if a prison official, presiding over a prison disciplinary hearing, reasonably concludes that it would be futile to call a witness to testify, his refusal to do so will not constitute a violation of the prisoner’s constitutional rights”
• “[A]n 21 assistant must be assigned to the inmate to act as his surrogate—to do what the inmate would have done were he able.”
• “if a prison official, presiding over a prison disciplinary hearing, reasonably concludes that it would be futile to call a witness to testify, his refusal will not constitute a violation of the prisoner’s constitutional rights.”
• “if a prison official, presiding over a prison disciplinary hearing, reasonably concludes that it would be futile to call a witness to testify, his refusal to do so will not constitute a violation of the prisoner’s constitutional rights”
• “[I]f a prison official, presiding over a prison disciplinary hearing, reasonably concludes that it would be futile to call a witness to testify, his refusal to do so will not constitute a violation of the prisoner's constitutional rights[.]”

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