Legal Opinion
Calligan v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 23, 2009No. 09-2773PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
A conduct-adjustment board found Indiana inmate Edwin Calligan guilty of battery after an altercation that he had with two prison guards. Calligan was sanctioned with a year of disciplinary segregation, a demotion in credit-earning class, and the loss of 365 days’ good-time credits. After exhausting his administrative appeals, he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied his petition and his motion for reconsideration. We affirm the judgment.
According to the conduct report, in August 2007 Officer Frank Bernacet saw Cal-ligan…
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