CHARLES ARTHUR HUGUENOT, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,
v.
LOUIE L. WAINWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS, STATE OF FLORIDA, DEFENDANT-APPELLEE
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The court held that even if prison officials lacked probable cause for administrative segregation, constitutional provisions did not preclude such action.
An inmate sued prison officials for depriving him of constitutional rights by placing him in administrative segregation without probable cause after a…
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PER CURIAM:
Charles Arthur Huguenot, an inmate confined in the maximum security section of the Florida State Prison at Raiford, filed a complaint seeking injunctive relief against an asserted deprivation of Federal constitutional rights resulting from the failure of prison officials to establish “probable cause” for placing him in administrative segregation.1 The plaintiff was accused of throwing a knife into a trash can following a disturbance in a part of the prison’s East Unit known as K-Wing. He denies having participated in the disturbance or in any attempt to dispose of the knife.
We affirm the District Court’s dismissal of the complaint. When a State prisoner asserts a claim which, if proven, could potentially evolve into a substantial Federal question of constitutional proportions, he is ordinarily entitled to an opportunity to prove his allegations. Williams v. Wainwright, 5 Cir., 1972, 461 F. 2d 1080 and companion cases. Here, however, even conceding the truth of Huguenot’s contention that prison officials did not have “probable cause” for removing him from the general prison population, we cannot conclude that the strictures of procedural due process or any other constitutional provision precluded such action. Granville v. Hunt, 5 Cir., 1969, 411 F. 2d 9, 12.
Affirmed.
. The complaint did not attack the conditions of confinement or any of the restrictions associated with it.
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