Baptiste v. Goord

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

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting violent conduct, committing an unhygienic act, interfering with a facility employee and wasting state property after it was alleged that he had violently pushed a hot food tray back through his cell’s feedup hatch and onto the floor causing food to splatter the correction…