Ortiz v. Duncan

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Washington County) to review two determinations which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner challenges determinations arising out of two prison disciplinary hearings, the first of which found him guilty of refusing to obey direct orders and creating a disturbance. According to the misbehavior report, petitioner repeatedly refused to comply with the correction officer’s orders to stop shouting and continued to create a disturbance until after…