Headley v. Goord

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

Petitioner was the subject of two misbehavior reports. In the first, he was charged with violating the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting inmates from causing intentional flooding based upon the reporting correction officer’s observation of water and debris flowing into the hall from petitioner’s cell. The officer subsequently testified that only…