Edwards v. Goord

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

On March 11, 2003, as the result of a personal letter he sent to a nursing student who worked at the facility where he was incarcerated, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with harassment. On March 16, 2003, petitioner met with two correction officials complaining that the correction officer who authored the misbehavior report had added two…