Matter of Dozier v Selsky
2008 NY Slip Op 04584 [51 AD3d 1302]
May 22, 2008
Appellate Division, Third Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 16, 2008


In the Matter of Neron Dozier, Petitioner, v Donald Selsky, as Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.

[*1] Neron Dozier, Pine City, petitioner pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.

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 the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging a tier III disciplinary determination finding him guilty of bribery, making threats, engaging in violent conduct and assault. The Attorney General has advised that, during the pendency of this proceeding, the determination at hand has been administratively reversed and all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record. As a result, petitioner has been afforded all of the relief to which he is entitled and we therefore dismiss this matter as moot (see Matter of Smalls v Smith, 47 AD3d 1101, 1102 [2008]).

Peters, J.P., Spain, Lahtinen, Kavanagh and Stein, JJ., concur. Adjudged that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.