Norman v. Wood

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

Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting engaging in violent conduct, assaults on staff, refusing direct orders, creating a disturbance and possession of a weapon. According to the misbehavior report, while a correction sergeant was…