Brown v. Scully

On this appeal, petitioner contends that he was deprived of his right to call witnesses at his disciplinary proceeding. However, his failure to name specific witnesses at the hearing justified the hearing officer’s decision not to allow testimony from a large number of potential witnesses, identified only as “members of Mosque”, due to hazards to prison safety such a procedure would have entailed (see, Wolff v McDonnell, 418 US 539).

With regard to petitioner’s contention that he was denied effective employee assistance, the employee assistant was required to investigate any reasonable factual…