Reyes v. Barkley

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in St. Lawrence County) to review a *744determination of the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of disobeying a direct order in violation of a prison disciplinary rule.* According to the misbehavior report, petitioner became argumentative about how tight his handcuffs had been applied and refused repeated orders to stop talking and using abusive language. In our view, the…