Legal Opinion
Shelby Moffat v. Edward Broyles
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 28, 2002No. 00-4032PublishedCited by 423 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Shelby Moffat lost 180 days of good-time credits after a disciplinary committee concluded that he had attempted to smuggle two pieces of jewelry into the prison. Immediately after seeing a visitor in an interview room, Moffat asked to use the bathroom; suspicions raised, the officers sent him to the shakedown room instead and caught him attempting to discard a paper towel containing a gold chain and a silver chain. Moffat’s defense was that he owned the jewelry and had worn it into the visiting room; he offered as evidence receipts for some authorized jewelry…
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