Tavares v. Piatek

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

Petitioner was charged in four misbehavior reports with violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting inmates from possessing weapons, engaging in violent conduct, making threats, destroying State property, committing arson and assaulting staff in connection with incidents that occurred in April 1996 while petitioner…