Matter of Covington v Lempke
2012 NY Slip Op 03019 [94 AD3d 1448]
April 20, 2012
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 23, 2012


In the Matter of Ronnie Covington, Petitioner, v John Lempke, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility, Respondent.

—[*1] Ronnie Covington, petitioner pro se.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department by order of the Supreme Court, Seneca County [Dennis F. Bender, A.J.], entered November 2, 2011) to review a determination of respondent. The determination found after a Tier II hearing that petitioner had violated an inmate rule.

It is hereby ordered that the determination is unanimously confirmed without costs and the petition is dismissed. Present—Centra, J.P., Peradotto, Sconiers and Martoche, JJ.