Smith v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner was charged with violating prison disciplinary rules prohibiting bribery, harassment, threats and sex offenses on the basis of several extortion letters of a sexually explicit nature which he allegedly sent to a female correction officer. After considering the testimony of Correction Officer Robert…