Acevedo v. Goord

*1144Proceeding 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 certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of a pat frisk, correction officers discovered a razor blade wrapped in tape in petitioner’s sock, as a result of which petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with possessing contraband and possessing an altered item. Petitioner attended the tier III disciplinary hearing that followed but was removed from the hearing prior to its…