IN RE JACKSON

Docket No. Crim. 24237.

43 Cal.3d 501 (1987)

731 P.2d 36

233 Cal. Rptr. 911

In re FERNANDO A. JACKSON on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

February 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Donald Specter, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Ann K. Jensen, Kenneth C. Young, Morris Lenk and Paul D. Gifford, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

Christopher N. Heard as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT.*

We granted a hearing to determine whether either federal or state due process requires state prison hearing officers to interview confidential informants in camera before finding an accused prison inmate guilty of a disciplinary violation solely on the basis of confidential information.

Prison officials regularly depend on confidential informants to identify prison rule violators...

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