Trottie 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 Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

*936Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of conspiring to assault another inmate and threatening violent conduct after he wrote a letter to an individual and requested money in exchange for assaulting the inmate who had burglarized her home.* In the letter, which the individual promptly turned over to authorities,…