Gwinn v. Awmiller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that liberty interests were implicated under the stigma-plus test where the defendant was incorrectly placed on a sex offender registry without any process
• holding that a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment claim based on “the denial of good time credits and other privileges” was not supported by applicable law
• holding that a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment claim based on “the denial of good time credits and other privileges” was not supported by applicable law
• finding that, because classification as sex offender reduced the rate at which an inmate could earn good time credits, inmate was entitled to procedural protections in Wolff
• referring to Mr. Gwinn’s claim as one of procedural due process
• explaining that the “choice between the opportunity to . . . retain favorable parole status or . . . refusing to participate in the treatment program . . . did not rise to a level where it is likely to compel a person to be a witness against himself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).