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Mental State Matters, But Not a Defense, In Prison Disciplinary Proceeding

Loaded on June 15, 2008

Filed under: Staff Assistance, Mental Health. Location: New York.

On October 16, 1990, the Court of Appeals of New York held that, although a prison disciplinary hearing officer must consider the prisoner's mental state as a potential mitigation factor for punishment, mental state was not an affirmative defense to prison disciplinary charges.
Samuel Huggins, a New York state prisoner, ...

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