Scott v. Hall

Robert Scott, an Omaha Correctional Center inmate, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition in error challenging a prison disciplinary proceeding in which Scott was found to have violated a prison rule prohibiting prisoners from trafficking in drugs within the institution. As a result of being found guilty, Scott lost 3 months of his good time and received 10 days’ disciplinary segregation.

In sustaining the defendants’ demurrer to Scott’s petition in error, the district court for Douglas County found that there was a defect in party defendants, that the appeal (petition in…