Hampton v. Davis

ORDER

A prison disciplinary board found Indiana inmate James Hampton guilty of sexual assault for grabbing a female correctional officer’s buttocks and revoked *275180 days of his good-time credit. After exhausting his state remedies, Hampton sought a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming that the disciplinary board denied him due process of law. The district court denied Hampton’s petition and entered judgment on October 29, 2001. Three weeks later, on November 20, Hampton filed a “Motion to Reconsider” purportedly under Fed.R.Civ.P. 59(e), which the…