Murray v. Coombe

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster 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 at Southport Correctional Facility in Chemung County. He and seven other inmates disregarded an order to leave an area of the prison where an emergency crew was responding to a security problem. As a result, petitioner was found guilty of refusing to obey a direct order, failing to follow…