Brown v. State

GRIMES, Chief Judge.

Appellant challenges the summary denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to review prison disciplinary proceedings.

On July 26, 1978, appellant, an inmate at the Hillsborough Correctional Institute, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court. Therein he alleged that a disciplinary court at the correctional institute had violated his right to due process by trying him for armed assault and participation in a riot and confiscating 180 days of gain time without permitting him to call witnesses in his behalf or confront his accusers and without…