Kennaugh v. Mann

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered October 5, 1994 in Ulster County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondents which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of threatening a correction officer in violation of a prison disciplinary rule. He claims that he was denied effective employee assistance in preparing his defense insofar as his assistant failed to obtain specific housing logs which would have exonerated…