Belot v. Selsky

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 Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was being escorted to the visiting room by a correction officer when he was found to be in possession of two personal letters. After initially admitting that the letters were indeed personal, petitioner insisted that they were actually legal letters. He was thereafter charged in a misbehavior…