Espinal v. Goord.

• Position: DISCIPLINE - Case regarding impartiality towards a prisoner - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

NOTICE

IMPARTIALITY

Espinal v. Goord, 180 F.Supp.2d 532 (S.D.N.Y. 2002). A state inmate filed a [section] 1983 action against prison official alleging violation of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The district court denied the inmate's motion that asked the court to order him released from punitive segregation. The court found that the inmate received adequate notice of the disciplinary charges against him and that the hearing officer was sufficiently fair and impartial. The inmate had asserted that the misbehavior report that notified him of the charges against him should have indicated the basis of knowledge or veracity of...