IN THE MATTER OF BRIDGEFORTH v. FISCHER

506862

69 A.D.3d 1068 (2010)

891 N.Y.S.2d 671

2010 NY Slip Op 326

In the Matter of OTIS BRIDGEFORTH, Petitioner, v. BRIAN FISCHER, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Respondent.

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

January 14, 2010.


Petitioner, an inmate, informed a correction officer that his cellmate had just threatened him with a razor tied to a rope. The correction officer then frisked petitioner's cellmate, but found no razor on him, and a search of the cell revealed that the cellmate's razor, with the blades intact, was in his shower bag. Petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with lying and refusing a double bunk assignment. Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner was found...

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