Webb v. Coombe

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

As the result of a physical altercation with correction officers, petitioner was found guilty of violating prison disciplinary rules prohibiting assault on prison staff and the destruction of State property. Petitioner challenges this determination arguing, inter alia, that he was improperly denied the right to present…