Griffen v. Goord

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (LaBuda, J.), entered October 12, 1999 in Sullivan County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent finding petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

After forged documents were seized from his cell, petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged in a misbehavior report with violating the prison disciplinary rule that prohibits forgery. When petitioner was subsequently convicted of five counts of perjury in the second degree in connection with the forged…