Moore v. Fischer

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

Based upon confidential information received by correction officials that petitioner was providing legal assistance to other inmates, petitioner’s cell was searched and handwritten legal materials—the content of which matched the content of legal materials confiscated from another inmate—were recovered. A book containing an inscription with a gang-related…