Martin v. Goord

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

Following a basketball game in the prison gymnasium, petitioner began to proceed to the hallway but was directed by a correction officer to go to the bleachers. Disgruntled, petitioner became verbally abusive toward the officer in the presence of numerous other inmates. As a result, he was charged in a…