Zambrana v. Goord

—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 which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of exchanging a controlled substance in violation of a prison disciplinary rule. Introduced into evidence at his disciplinary hearing were two letters confiscated from another inmate indicating that an inmate known as “Pulpo” owed a drug-related debt to another individual named “Columbia”. The correction officer who…