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New York Federal Court Finds Victim's Hearsay Accusation Insufficient in Prison Disciplinary Case; Suit Settles for $67,000
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 54
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings),
Evidence.
Location:
New York.
A New York federal District Court has held that prison officials were liable for convicting a prisoner in a disciplinary proceeding based solely on a victim's uncorroborated hearsay statement.
Carl E. Molano, a New York state prisoner, was on the recreation yard at the Five Points Correctional ...
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