Cureton v. Keane

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 respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting inmates from demonstrating and creating a disturbance based upon evidence that, after loudly questioning a correction officer about the existence of an announced rule, he returned to the inmates and stated in a very loud voice that “if it is not in the…