JAMES v. STATE, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. S-13916.

260 P.3d 1046 (2011)

Joseph JAMES, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 2, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph James , pro se, Hudson, Colorado, Appellant.

Marilyn J. Kamm , Assistant Attorney General, and John J. Burns , Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before: FABE, WINFREE, and CHRISTEN, Justices.


OPINION

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

After a disciplinary hearing, a hearing officer found Alaska prison inmate Joseph James guilty of the "low-moderate" infraction of "threatening another person with future bodily harm" at Red Rocks Correctional Center in Arizona. The determination was based entirely on an incident report written by a prison staff member who had not witnessed the incident. Instead, the report's author, G. Mathey, provided...

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