Victory v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court *456by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Based upon a search of his cell at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County, petitioner was charged with violating six facility rules. Following a hearing and an administrative appeal by petitioner, respondent sustained the charges which were based upon findings that petitioner disobeyed a direct order from facility personnel, that petitioner…