MATTER OF FOURNIER v. HONGISTO


75 A.D.2d 660 (1980)

In the Matter of Joseph Fournier, Petitioner, v. Richard D. Hongisto, as Acting Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

April 3, 1980


Petitioner, an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility, was given the privilege of acting within the prison as a legal assistant clerk in the Clinton Main Law Library. On March 15, 1979, he was assigned by his supervisor to assist an inmate, under "keep-lock" in Cell Block C, in obtaining counsel as an indigent and in perfecting an appeal from a parole board decision, dated March 7, 1979. Petitioner prepared a notice of appeal...

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