Rosario v. Coughlin

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 respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of possessing weapons in violation of prison disciplinary rules. Although he *611contends that correction officers planted these weapons in his cell in retaliation for his activities as an "inmate liaison representative”, in which he brought inmate concerns to the attention of…