Green v. McGinnis

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Chemung County) to review two determinations of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged in two misbehavior reports with violating certain prison disciplinary rules. The charges stemmed from two incidents in which petitioner refused direct orders to remove sheets that he had hung from his cell bars and, instead, threatened and harassed the correction officer who ordered their removal. Following…