Brown v. Coughlin

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lewis, J.), entered January 3, 1994 in Clinton County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, while a prisoner at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County, was charged with three misbehavior reports alleging several violations of disciplinary rules. A tier III hearing was held, petitioner was found guilty of all but one of the…