Gantt v. Fischer

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

Petitioner, while a prison inmate, pleaded guilty in Clinton County Court in April 2010 to criminal contempt in the first degree and stalking in the second degree and was sentenced as a second felony offender to a prison term of 2 to 4 years. As a result, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with committing a…