Riley v. Goord

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

As the result of an investigation, petitioner’s wife was found to be in possession of a condom containing heroin which she secreted in her underwear during a visit to the correctional facility where petitioner was incarcerated. In connection with this incident, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with conspiring to introduce narcotics and…