Watson v. New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 and action for a declaratory judgment (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Clinton County) to, among other things, review determinations of the Commissioner of Correctional Services and Community Supervision and the Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, challenges a tier II disciplinary determination finding him guilty of smuggling and being out of place, as well as a separate tier III determination finding…