MATTER OF WATSON v. DOE


277 A.D.2d 585 (2000)

716 N.Y.S.2d 615

In the Matter of KEVIN WATSON, Petitioner, v. JANE DOE et al., as Employees of Altona Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents.

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

Decided November 2, 2000.


Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging a tier III disciplinary determination finding him guilty of assaulting a staff member and disturbing the order of the facility after he assaulted a correction officer who was attempting to confine him to the isolation room. According to the misbehavior report and eyewitness testimony, while the correction officer was in the process of closing the isolation room door petitioner pulled the door open, struck the...

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