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Haney v. Thomas

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided August 29, 2013No. 2011-SC-000453-DGPublishedCited by 1 opinion

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Opinion of the Court by

Justice CUNNINGHAM.

Appellee, Ontario Thomas, is currently in the custody of the Kentucky Department of Corrections. On April 17, 2009, while serving time at Northpoint Training Center, Thomas allegedly assaulted another inmate by the name of Jeffery Elam. Correctional Lieutenant Walter Gribbins investigated the matter. Based on the information Lieutenant Gribbins received from at least two confidential informants, he concluded that Thomas hit Elam in the eye after Elam refused to pay Thomas “yard tax.” As a result of his investigation, Lieutenant Gribbins submitted a…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Henderson v. CarlsonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1987
  5. Charles Mendoza v. Harold G. Miller, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ramirez v. NietzelCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 2015

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