Legal Opinion

Anthony Thomas v. Anthony Ramos, Margaret Thompson, Leona Gregory, David Essenpreis, and Yolande Williams

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided February 3, 1998No. 96-1664PublishedCited by 253 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

While Anthony Thomas was an inmate incarcerated in the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, serving a twelve year sentence for armed robbery, he received a disciplinary ticket for leaving his cell without permission and for threatening to strike a corrections officer on May 15, 1994. He was placed in segregation pending a hearing. After an initial hearing before a three-member panel of Stateville’s Adjustment Committee and a subsequent continuance to obtain testimony from a witness, a second Committee panel issued a disciplinary sentence for Thomas’s violations.…

2Cases cited31 opinions

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  3. Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  4. Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979

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3Cited by253 opinions

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