Mitchell v. Drown

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme *906Court, entered in Albany County) to review two determinations of the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

As relevant to this appeal, petitioner was the subject of two misbehavior reports. The first concerned a charge that petitioner had violated the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting the unauthorized possession of narcotics after a search of his shared cell divulged the presence of a white, powdery substance secreted under…