Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden
1. In 1985 this Court established that the "some evidence"standard
is to be applied to reviews of prison disciplinary cases. In cases where
an offense consists of more than one element, and good time credits are at
stake, must there be "some evidence" to support a finding on every element
of the offense, or is it enough that "some evidence" can be shoun to support
any single element of the offense?
2. If the answer to Question #I is that there needs to be "some
evidence" to support a finding on every elemert of the offerse, then the
appeal was non-frivolous, and the question is did the court of appeals
act properly and correctly when it dismissed a non-frivolous appeal
from an indigent appellant for failure to pay the docketing fee in a
case that would directly affect the length of the term he would have
to spend in prison?
Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any single element is sufficient