The Sixth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that a defendant convicted of possessing a knife (“shank”) in prison suffered no due process violation where prison guards failed to retain his boxer shorts as evidence after they found him in possession of a shank that was stored in a special pocket sewn into the shorts.
State prison inmate Ernest Velasco was subject to a protocol that required he be screened for weapons before entering the prison recreation yard. Inmates subject to screening wore only boxer shorts and undershirts during inspection.
