Cotton v. Coughlin

Proceedings pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by four orders of the Supreme Court, entered in Washington County) to review four determinations of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

In each of these proceedings, petitioner, an inmate in the State prison system, objects to a separate and distinct determination which found him guilty of violating certain prison rules. The record establishes that petitioner refused to attend the administrative hearings on the disciplinary charges and, therefore, he waived any right to…