Keesh v. Goord

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

Petitioner’s cell was searched when he was suspected of possessing gang-related materials. Various documents were recovered, including a photocopy of the cover of a book entitled the “Holy Blackness,” authored by petitioner, as well as a blank order form. As a result of the search, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior…