U.S. Appeals Court: EVIDENCE PUNISHMENT.

• Position: Brief Article

Hudson v. Johnson, 242 F.3d 534(5th Cir. 2001). A prisoner filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that he was unconstitutionally incarcerated because a prison disciplinary board, without any evidence, found him guilty of committing riot and revoked his good time credits. The district court denied the petition and the appeals court affirmed. The appeals court held that an officers identification of the prisoner as...