Amaker v. Bezio

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review two determinations of the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging two tier III disciplinary determinations. The first misbehavior report charged violations of seven disciplinary rules arising from an argument between petitioner and correction officers about his right to wear his hair in dreadlocks, occurring…