Opinion
04-27-2017
In the Matter of Barry PALCZEWSKI, Petitioner, v. Anthony J. ANNUCCI, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al., Respondents.
Barry Palczewski, Oyster Bay, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Patrick A. Woods of counsel), for respondents.
Barry Palczewski, Oyster Bay, petitioner pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Patrick A. Woods of counsel), for respondents.
Before: GARRY, J.P., LYNCH, ROSE, CLARK and MULVEY, JJ.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (partially transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review, among other things, a determination of respondent Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.
In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioner challenges a tier III disciplinary determination finding him guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule and his related removal from a work release program. The portion of the petition challenging the disciplinary determination was transferred to this Court pursuant to CPLR 7804(g), while the challenge to his removal from the work release program remained in Supreme Court. The Attorney General has advised this Court that petitioner has since been released to parole supervision, and the tier III determination at issue has been administratively reversed and all references thereto have been ordered to be expunged from petitioner's institutional record. As the letter does not indicate that petitioner has been refunded the mandatory $5 surcharge (see 7 NYCRR 253.7 [b] ), he should be permitted to recoup that expense (see Matter of
Oppenheimer v. Griffin, 123 A.D.3d 1214, 1214, 998 N.Y.S.2d 256 [2014] ). Inasmuch as petitioner has received all of the relief to which he is entitled in this regard, the petition, to the extent that it concerns the expunged disciplinary determination, must be dismissed as moot (see Matter of Macedonio v. Annucci, 145 A.D.3d 1311, 1311, 41 N.Y.S.3d 924 [2016] ; Matter of Rufus v. Annucci, 145 A.D.3d 1294, 1294, 41 N.Y.S.3d 922 [2016] ).
Petitioner's request for reimbursement for lost wages following his removal from the work release program due to the alleged violation of his rights associated with the disciplinary determination is not properly before this Court.
ADJUDGED that that part of the petition transferred to this Court is dismissed, as moot, without costs.