Conover v. Lawless

OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM

*767This is a prison discipline case involving a fight between two inmates in which a Corrections officer was injured. One of the inmates involved in the altercation, Appellee, Kristy Lawless, was disciplined as a result of the officer's injury. She appealed that disciplinary determination through the appropriate channels and eventually exhausted her appeals as a matter of right resulting in a decision by the Court of Appeals ruling in her favor. For the forgoing reasons, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals and reinstate the trial court's…