| Matter of Hughes v Bedard |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 03557 [117 AD3d 1246] |
| May 15, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Michael Hughes, Appellant, v Corey Bedard, as Acting Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent. |
Michael Hughes, Stormville, appellant pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Zwack, J.), entered January 16, 2013 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.
Following a tier III prison disciplinary hearing, petitioner was found guilty of drug use and violating family reunion program procedures. Upon administrative appeal, the determination was administratively reversed and a rehearing ordered due to an incomplete electronic recording of the hearing.
In cases such as this one, where the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision has yet to "issue[ ] a final determination, it is entirely proper for the Commissioner to order a rehearing upon his administrative review of an inmate disciplinary proceeding, even where an error sought to be corrected is of constitutional magnitude" (Matter of Stephens v Goord, 273 AD2d 656, 657 [2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 766 [2000]; see Matter of Higgins v Selsky, 27 AD3d 913, 914 [2006]). As we find no basis to conclude that a rehearing was improperly ordered, Supreme Court properly dismissed the proceeding (see Matter of Stephens v Goord, 273 AD2d at 657).
Lahtinen, J.P., McCarthy, Garry and Egan Jr., JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.