Court Opinion

ID: 9540602
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:18:07.067659+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:00:04.302120
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur fully in the Court’s analysis and holding in this case. Judges of the District Court should note the limitation of the remedy enunciated by the Court in this order is directed to the determination whether due process rights have been afforded to the inmate. If due process has been followed, relief must be denied. However, if due process has not been afforded, the only remedy is to issue a Writ of Mandamus to the appropriate prison official directing the inmate be provided the due process set forth in this order. The hearing at the District Court is not a trial de novo or an appellate review of the disciplinary hearing results. It is only a vehicle to be utilized by an inmate to require the State to follow its own procedures in affording the process which is due the inmate in this particular instance.