MATTER OF ORTIZ v. GOORD


298 A.D.2d 736 (2002)

748 N.Y.S.2d 827

In the Matter of ALVIN ORTIZ, Petitioner, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Respondent.

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

Decided October 24, 2002.


Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting fighting and failing to report an injury. As related in the misbehavior report, petitioner suffered wounds in the center of his chest and on his right shoulder blade after he was attacked by another inmate. Early the next morning, the reporting correction officer received an anonymous note which related that petitioner had been stabbed. After observing...

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