ROQUE v. WARDEN


181 Conn. 85 (1980)

LUIS ROQUE v. WARDEN, CONNECTICUT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, SOMERS

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimball H. Hunt, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Stephen J. O'Neill, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Carl R. Ajello, attorney general, for the appellee (defendant).

COTTER, C. J., LOISELLE, BOGDANSKI, PETERS and HEALEY, JS.


ARTHUR H. HEALEY, J.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by the plaintiff, Luis Roque, an inmate at the Somers correctional institution, in which he challenges the constitutionality of certain procedures by which he was required to serve four days in punitive segregation and was deprived of ninety days of good time. These sanctions were imposed as the result of his being found guilty in a prison disciplinary hearing of the charges of giving false information...

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