Evans v. Goord

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Chemung County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Following a disciplinary hearing, petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of possessing weapons, disobeying a direct order and failing to comply with search and frisk procedures in violation of prison disciplinary rules. The charges stemmed from the discovery of a metal object in petitioner’s mouth during a…