MATTER OF TAFARI v. SELSKY


38 A.D.3d 1079 (2007)

831 N.Y.S.2d 603

In the Matter of INJAH TAFARI, Petitioner, v. DONALD SELSKY, as Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.

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

Decided March 15, 2007.


Petitioner failed to cooperate with correction officers while he was being placed in handcuffs and removed from his cell for an emergency sick call. During the incident, petitioner ignored a correction officer's directive to stop resisting, which, in turn, caused the officer's arm to be pulled into the cell door hatch and his body to strike the cell door. When petitioner was eventually removed from his cell, he spit at the officer. Petitioner was later charged in a misbehavior...

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