MATTER OF VELEZ v. GOORD


262 A.D.2d 906 (1999)

694 N.Y.S.2d 486

In the Matter of CHRISTOPHER VELEZ, Petitioner, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, Respondent.

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

Decided June 24, 1999.


Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violating prison disciplinary rules which prohibit possessing unauthorized organizational materials and of disobeying facility correspondence procedures. According to the misbehavior report, petitioner was found to be in possession of, inter alia, unauthorized organizational materials, including a "call to arms" letter advocating gang violence. The determination of guilt was...

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