Bonilla v. Coombe

—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 respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

After taking a urinalysis test which produced a positive result for the presence of opiates, petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged with, and subsequently found guilty of, violating a prison disciplinary rule prohibiting inmates from using controlled substances. Petitioner contends that the positive test result was attributable to his consumption of…