Matter of Sandy v. Venettozzi

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 Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

After a correction officer twice ordered petitioner, who was working in the prison law library, to turn in the typewriter ribbon and wheel he was using so that another inmate could use them, petitioner banged his chair against the table, yelled profanities, slammed the items on the officer’s desk breaking them and…