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Matter of Doolen v. Goord

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Nov 9, 2000
277 A.D.2d 624 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

Opinion

November 9, 2000.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered May 2, 2000 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent withholding petitioner's good time allowance.

Before: Mercure, J.P., Crew III, Peters, Mugglin and Lahtinen, JJ.


Albert Doolen, Frankfort, appellant in person.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General (William E. Storrs of counsel), Albany, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Petitioner, an inmate currently serving a 3 to 6-year sentence for his conviction of reckless endangerment in the first degree, commenced this proceeding challenging a determination withholding 15 months of his good time allowance based upon a tier III disciplinary determination. Supreme Court dismissed the petition and we affirm. Initially, to the extent that petitioner seeks habeas corpus relief, we note that such relief is not appropriate because the determination to withhold good time did not render petitioner's continued confinement pursuant to his original sentence unlawful (see, People ex rel. Hawkins v. Scully, 151 A.D.2d 527, 528; People ex rel. Miranda v. Kuhlmann, 127 A.D.2d 924, lv denied 69 N.Y.2d 612). Moreover, inasmuch as we conclude that the decision to withhold petitioner's good time allowance was made in accordance with the law and was properly based upon petitioner's violation of an institutional rule, judicial review is precluded (see, Correction Law § 803 [a]; [4]; Matter of Urbina v. McGinnis, 270 A.D.2d 535, 536, 704 N.Y.S.2d 679, 680). Petitioner's remaining claims have been examined and found to be unpersuasive.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.


Summaries of

Matter of Doolen v. Goord

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Nov 9, 2000
277 A.D.2d 624 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
Case details for

Matter of Doolen v. Goord

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of ALBERT DOOLEN, Appellant, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department

Date published: Nov 9, 2000

Citations

277 A.D.2d 624 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
718 N.Y.S.2d 221

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