Duckworth v. Williams

STATON, Presiding Judge.

The trial court below ordered the State Department of Corrections (Department) to allow counsel for certain offenders confined at the Indiana State Prison to inspect the offenders' confidential files in preparation for parole or clemency hearings. The Department appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in granting the order.

We reverse and remand for an in camera inspection of the files by the trial court.

This appeal is a consolidation of two cases below in which eighteen offenders petitioned the trial court for an order granting their counsel, Lawrence W. Arness,…