Crandell v. Mitchell

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 the Superintendent of Eastern Correctional Facility which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

It has been established that a misbehavior report alone can constitute substantial evidence of an inmate’s misconduct (see, Matter of Perez v Wilmot, 67 NY2d 615). Here, the report was written by the correction officer who was involved in the incident. It stated that after petitioner signed into the law library he…