Washington v. Fischer

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

During the course of an investigation, correction officials obtained information suggesting that petitioner and another inmate were conducting an illicit drug business in the correctional facility. It was further disclosed that petitioner conspired with other inmates to have a third inmate, who owed him money, assaulted and that this inmate was later…