Hall v. Goord

Proceeding 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.

Petitioner was charged in two misbehavior reports with separate counts of violating the inmate rule prohibiting possession of a weapon after a pen fitted with a razor blade was found in his attaché case and, later, a razor blade was found in his bed frame. Both counts were heard at a single tier III disciplinary hearing, at which time petitioner sought to…