Sorey v. Coughlin

— 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 certain prison disciplinary rules (7 NYCRR 270.2).

Petitioner was found guilty after a Superintendent’s hearing of violating State-wide rule 104.10 (rioting) and 109.11 (leaving an assigned area without authorization) as a result of his participation in an inmate uprising on May 28-29, 1991 at Southport Correctional Facility in Chemung County. In this proceeding, petitioner contends that…