WIGHTMAN v. SUPDT., MASS. CORRECTIONAL INST.


19 Mass. App. Ct. 442 (1985)

475 N.E.2d 85

ROBERT WIGHTMAN vs. SUPERINTENDENT, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, WALPOLE, & others.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

March 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Wightman, pro se.

Stephen G. Dietrick for the defendants.

Present: ARMSTRONG, KAPLAN, & SMITH, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The plaintiff, Robert Wightman, an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, sued the superintendent of the institution and others in Superior Court, seeking judicial review of a decision of a disciplinary board (affirmed on administrative appeal) that he had committed the offense of possessing "angel dust" and hence was punishable by "isolation time." Because the record of the proceedings at the institution is inadequate to support...

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