Matter of Hynes v. Venettozzi

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 the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

While in the facility’s law library, upon being asked, petitioner, an inmate, denied that he was in possession of any other inmate’s legal papers. A subsequent search of petitioner’s folder revealed that petitioner possessed three other inmates’ legal papers, and a search of petitioner’s cell yielded legal…