Hamm v. Superintendent of Mohawk Correctional Facility

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.

When he was unable to produce his state identification card for a correction officer, petitioner was pat frisked and found to be in possession of one half of a pill which he claimed was a muscle relaxen Thereafter, petitioner’s cell was searched and a correction officer recovered an outdated prescription packet, as well as an empty soda can filled with…