Ackridge v. Ekpe

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

After attempting to speak with an inmate who was being escorted by two correction officers past his cell, petitioner refused an officer’s directive to cease such behavior. As a result, he was charged in a misbehavior report with interfering with an employee and refusing a direct order. Petitioner was found guilty of the charges following a tier II…