Patterson 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.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty after a disciplinary hearing of exchanging a controlled substance and smuggling a controlled substance into a correctional facility. He challenges this determination arguing, inter alia, that the misbehavior report was not sufficiently specific to apprise him of the charges…