MATTER OF COLEMAN v. GOORD


269 A.D.2d 717 (2000)

704 N.Y.S.2d 669

In the Matter of JERMAINE COLEMAN, Petitioner, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as Commissioner of State Department of Correctional Services, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided February 24, 2000.


Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule prohibiting inmates from possessing weapons after a search of his cell revealed a blade-type weapon attached to a string located between petitioner's headboard and a wall divider. We reject petitioner's assertion that since the misbehavior report stated the wrong location of where the weapon was found, petitioner did not have adequate detail to...

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