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Disciplinary Boards are not "State Courts" Under AEDPA
Loaded on May 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2003, page 32
Disciplinary Boards are not "State Courts" Under AEDPA
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison disciplinary boards are not "state courts" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1). As such, "the state may not benefit from § 2254 (e) (1)'s presumption of correctness in appeals from prison disciplinary ...
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