Burnett v. Fischer

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 respondent Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged with violating various prison disciplinary rules after a search of her cube disclosed, among other things, a handwritten document containing the personal information of a prison employee. As a result of that document, she was ultimately found guilty of possessing…