Chaney v. Goord

—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.

Petitioner was found guilty of violating prison disciplinary rules prohibiting interference with a staff member, refusing to obey a direct order, refusing to submit to a frisk and smoking in an undesignated area of the facility. Included in the evidence presented at petitioner’s disciplinary hearing was the misbehavior report in which the reporting…