Shepherd v. Davies

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• noting that a statement of reasons can be brief, but must be sufficient to demonstrate on review that the hearing officer's decision was not arbitrary
• reversing the summary dismissal of a K.S.A. 60-1501 petition where prison officials failed to document a rationale for denying an inmate's request for a witness at a disciplinary hearing
• trial court improperly dismissed an inmate’s habeas corpus petition without a hearing where prison officials failed to provide a rationale for denying the inmate’s request to call witnesses
• due process violated where \[n]o rationale was ever provided by prison officials for their decision to deny Shepherd his requested witness\

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