U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2007

Whitener, Michael D. v. Finnan, Alan

Whitener, Michael D. v. Finnan, Alan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · Decided April 10, 2007 · Hon, Manion, Kanne, Wood
221 F. App'x 463

Whitener, Michael D. v. Finnan, Alan

Opinion

ORDER

Indiana inmate Michael Whitener appeals the district court’s decision denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Whitener claims that his right to due process was violated in a prison disciplinary proceeding because insufficient evidence supported the Final Reviewing Authority’s finding that he had aided a battery. We had previously determined that, in order to resolve this issue, we needed to review the investigator’s case file and internal affairs summary that the Final Reviewing Authority relied on but that was not part of the record in the district court. We ordered a limited remand so the district court could receive these materials into the record and forward them to us. The district court has now done this, and our review of this material convinces us that “some evidence” supports the Final Reviewing Authority’s decision. See Superintendent, Mass. Corr. Inst., Walpole v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445, 455-57, 105 S.Ct. 2768, 86 L.Ed.2d 356 (1985); Webb v. Anderson, 224 F.3d 649, 652 (7th Cir. 2000). Therefore we AFFIRM the decision of the district court.

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