Brown v. Braxton.

• Position: HABEAS CORPUS - Violation of due process of rights - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

DUE PROCESS

GOOD TIME

Brown v. Braxton, 373 F.3d 501 (4th Cir. 2004). A prisoner petitioned for federal habeas corpus relief from the loss of good time credits in a prison disciplinary hearing. The district court denied relief and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the prison disciplinary hearing officer's refusal to allow the prisoner to call a fellow inmate as a live witness at a hearing was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law on the due process rights of...