Matter of McGriff v. Venettozzi

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 the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of an investigation, an investigator monitoring petitioner’s telephone calls became suspicious that petitioner was involved in a plan with others, including another inmate, to smuggle drugs into the correctional facility. According to the investigator, petitioner arranged in coded telephone…