Surdis v. Walsh

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

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting harassment, making threats and violating correctional facility correspondence procedures after it was determined that he was the author of a letter, sent to an IGA grocery store, wherein he threatened to “come into your store with shotguns…