MATTER OF COLEMAN v. KELLY


72 N.Y.2d 850 (1988)

In the Matter of Cole Coleman, Appellant, v. Walter R. Kelly, as Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Weinstein and Norman P. Effman for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Martin A. Hotvet, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

While petitioner was serving a sentence at Wyoming Correctional Facility he was charged with violating the standards of inmate behavior (7 NYCRR part 270) by inflicting bodily harm on another, creating a disturbance, and destroying State property. Following a Tier III Superintendent's disciplinary hearing (see, 7 NYCRR part 254), petitioner...

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