Phillips v. Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections

Opinion by

Judge STERNBERG. *

Plaintiff, Clayton B. Phillips, appeals the district court judgment affirming his prison disciplinary convictions for possession of unauthorized legal documents and fraud. Because we agree with plaintiff that there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction for possession of unauthorized legal doe-uments, we reverse the portion of the judgment affirming that conviction. However, we affirm the judgment insofar as it upheld plaintiff's disciplinary conviction for fraud.

I. Background

During a routine search of papers in plaintiff's possession, a prison officer…