Legal Opinion

COTTON v. ZATECKY

District Court, S.D. Indiana

Decided October 19, 2020No. 1:19-cv-03861Unknown

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION VELTOR COTTON, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) No. 1:19-cv-03861-SEB-DLP ) DUSHAN ZATECKY, ) ) Respondent. ) ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Veltor Cotton, an inmate of the Indiana Department of Correction ("IDOC"), has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging a prison disciplinary conviction in case number ISR 19-06-16. For the reasons explained below, the petition is DENIED. I. LEGAL STANDARD Prisoners in Indiana custody may not be deprived of good-time credits or credit-earning class…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Aaron B. Scruggs v. D. Bruce JordanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
  4. Shelby Moffat v. Edward BroylesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
  5. Curtis Ellison v. Dushan ZateckyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2016

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