Chastine v. Selsky

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

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting fighting after a correction officer observed him in the prison yard engaged in a fist fight with another inmate. Following the administrative affirmance of that decision, petitioner initiated this CPLR article 78 proceeding wherein he contends, inter…