Matter of Hanson v Bezio

Matter of Hanson v Bezio 2010 NY Slip Op 09614 [79 AD3d 1569] December 30, 2010 Appellate Division, Third Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 16, 2011

In the Matter of Paul Hanson, Appellant, v Norman R. Bezio, as Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.

—[*1] Thomas Terrizzi, Buffalo, for appellant.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Sania W. Khan of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (O'Connor, J.), entered October 30, 2009, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Commissioner of Correctional Services finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a tier III disciplinary determination finding him guilty of lewd contact and refusing to obey a direct order. The Attorney General has advised this Court that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed and all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record. Accordingly, petitioner has received all the relief to which he is entitled, and this appeal is dismissed as moot (see Matter of Mercer v Artus, 70 AD3d 1073, 1073-1074 [2010]; Matter of Rivera v Napoli, 69 AD3d 1284, 1285 [2010]).

Spain, J.P., Lahtinen, Kavanagh, Stein and Garry, JJ., concur. Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, as moot, without costs.