Gottilla v. Lacy

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

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of refusing to obey a direct order, creating a disturbance and interfering with an employee as the result of an incident in which he refused a teacher’s request to do classroom work and caused other inmates to stop working. He now claims that inasmuch as the teacher who prepared the misbehavior report…