Case ID: or-app_69/html/0329-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted May 5,
    affirmed in part and reversed in part August 1, 1984
    FROILAN SANTANA-BETANCOURT, Petitioner, v. OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY, Respondent.
    
    (11-83-112; CA A30511)
    685 P2d 479
    Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for petitioner.
    Scott McAlister, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, and James E. Mountain, Jr., Solicitor General, Salem.
    Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warren and Rossman, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Petitioner seeks judicial review of the final order of the Superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary finding petitioner guilty of violating OAR 291-105-015(4) (assault) and OAR 291-105-015(10) (disobedience of an order), contending that there is insufficient evidence to support the findings of the violations.

There is sufficient evidence to support the finding that petitioner violated rule 4; however, there is insufficient evidence to permit a finding that petitioner violated rule 10. That rule requires that the order be communicated to the inmate. Here the record shows that petitioner speaks Spanish and that he did not understand the order given to him. The superintendent concedes that the finding of disobedience cannot stand.

Accordingly, we reverse that part of the order finding that petitioner violated OAR 291-105-015(10). In all other respects, the order is affirmed.