Reid v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Washington County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner is an inmate who was found guilty of violating prison disciplinary rules prohibiting extortion, forgery and impersonation as the result of his attempt to have a mail-order catalogue company pay him for merchandise he claimed to have ordered but never received. Although the transcribed testimony of the…