Cunningham v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term entered in Albany County) to annul a determination of a superintendent’s proceeding which found petitioner guilty of violating certain facility rules. Petitioner was at all times referred to herein an inmate confined at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility. On October 10, 1982, two correction officers conducted a routine search of petitioner’s cell and found, under the mattress of his bed, unattached and loose, the following items: three nine-inch wires, one bedspring, one 20-inch…