Legal Opinion
Grillo v. Coughlin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 22, 1994No. 1436, Docket 93-2370PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEYAL, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant John Grillo brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his due process rights were violated in the course of a prison disciplinary hearing. Gril-lo’s principal claim is that the urinalysis forms offered against him at his hearing to document his positive urine test for opiates were altered and falsified. He relies primarily on the fact that the forms used in evidence against him at the hearing differed from the duplicates furnished to him. An omission and an apparent inconsistency that appeared on Grillo’s copies of two forms had been…
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