James v. State, Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• concluding prisoner's due process and confrontation rights were violated when officer who wrote incident report underlying disciplinary action did not appear at disciplinary proceeding
• holding prisoner’s state due process rights were violated when accusing prison officials were not present at disciplinary hearing
• deciding officers who wrote disciplinary report and investigated incident were mandatory witnesses
• deeming appellant's challenges to prison disciplinary decisions \waived ... because they were not raised during the administrative proceedings\
• describing importance of inmate’s rights to call witnesses and DOC’s duty to provide access to accuser
• reaffirming prisoner's state constitutional due process right to cross-examine witnesses at disciplinary hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).