Johnson v. Goord

*902Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner challenges a determination finding him guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rule that prohibits the possession of a weapon after a 7½-inch sharpened weapon was found secreted in a vent hole in petitioner’s locker. Although petitioner argues that the cell was not searched in accordance with departmental directives when he moved into it 5½ months…