Minton v. Goord

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

Petitioner, a prison inmate, challenges the determination finding him guilty of attempting to smuggle and possess drugs in violation of certain prison disciplinary rules. According to the misbehavior report, petitioner’s sister was arrested for attempting to smuggle 17 glassines of heroin into the correctional facility and thereafter implicated…