Opinion ID: 1482267
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Adjustment Segregation.

Text: In his amended petition, Abdullah has launched a blunderbuss attack on the procedures utilized to find him guilty of threats, and he has claimed that a plethora of LRAA provisions were violated. The gravamen of his complaint, however, is that he was falsely charged with threatening Ms. Pittman in reprisal for the exercise of his right to contest his retention in involuntary protective custody, and that Lorton officials placed pressure on potential exculpatory witnesses to inhibit them from testifying in his behalf. Abdullah also alleged that the disciplinary report against him was deliberately back-dated in an attempt to create a factually false appearance of compliance with 28 DCMR § 506.4. [5] The LRAA provides that, with exceptions not here applicable, [t]he resident shall be allowed to call at least two witnesses. 28 DCMR § 510.1. Counsel for the resident shall be given an opportunity to meet with potential witnesses forty-eight hours before the adjustment hearing, provided that no potential adverse witness may be compelled to meet with counsel. Id. § 510.3. Although Abdullah's allegation that witnesses were coerced may not be in direct contravention of these proscriptionsthe fit between proscription and charge is less than precisewe are satisfied that, if the allegations are taken as true and liberally construed in Abdullah's favor, then Abdullah has sufficiently claimed that he was deprived of an effective opportunity to interview and present witnesses. Accordingly, we conclude that Abdullah's allegations regarding the disciplinary proceedings against him should not have been dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. [6]