Foy v. Coughlin

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

Petitioner was found guilty after a Superintendent’s hearing of violating State-wide rules prohibiting possession of contraband and controlled substances. The misbehavior report states that the correction officer who authored the report found approximately two dozen one-inch square plastic bags in petitioner’s cell and…