Flemons v. Bolden

          PROPOSED FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

          JOE J. VOLPE, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

         INSTRUCTIONS

         The following supplemental recommended disposition has been sent to United States District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr. Any party may serve and file written objections to this recommendation. Objections should be specific and should include the factual or legal basis for the objection. If the objection is to a factual finding, specifically identify that finding and the evidence that supports your objection. An original and one copy of your objections must be received in the office of the United States District Court Clerk no later than fourteen (14) days from the date of the findings and recommendations. The copy will be furnished to the opposing party. Failure to file timely objections may result in waiver of the right to appeal questions of fact.

         If you are objecting to the recommendation and also desire to submit new, different, or additional evidence, and to have a hearing for this purpose before the District Judge, you must, at the same time that you file your written objections, include the following:

1. Why the record made before the Magistrate Judge is inadequate.

2. Why the evidence proffered at the hearing (if such a hearing is granted) was not offered at the hearing before the Magistrate Judge.

3. The details of any testimony desired to be introduced at the new hearing in the form of an offer of proof, and a copy, or the original, of any documentary or other non-testimonial evidence desired to be introduced at the new hearing.

         From this submission, the District Judge will determine the necessity for an additional evidentiary hearing. Mail your objections and “Statement of Necessity” to:

Clerk, United States District Court

Eastern District of Arkansas

600 West Capitol Avenue, Suite A149 Little Rock, AR 72201-3325

         DISPOSITION

         I. INTRODUCTION

         Aaron Anthony Flemons (“Plaintiff”), an inmate at the East Arkansas Regional Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction (“ADC”), filed this action pro se pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Doc. Nos. 2, 41.) He sued ADC Director Wendy Kelley, Security Officers Glenda Bolden and Daryl Morris, as well as Keith Waddle and Daniel Golden in their personal and official capacities. (Doc. No. 41 at 2.) He alleges Defendants violated his due process rights by finding him guilty at a disciplinary hearing he was prevented from attending and failing to gather and present evidence and put on witnesses as requested by Plaintiff at a ...