Opinion
03-23-2017
In the Matter of Johnny B. BROWN, Petitioner, v. Donald VENETTOZZI, as Acting Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
Johnny B. Brown, Dannemora, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Johnny B. Brown, Dannemora, petitioner pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a tier III disciplinary determination finding him guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules. The Attorney General has advised this Court that the determination has been administratively reversed, all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record and the mandatory $5 surcharge has been refunded to his inmate account. In view of this, and given that petitioner has been granted all the relief to which he is entitled, the petition must be dismissed as moot (see Matter of Boyd v. Annucci, 142 A.D.3d 1214, 1214–1215, 37 N.Y.S.3d 458 [2016] ; Matter of Flood v. Prack, 141 A.D.3d 1070, 1070–1071, 35 N.Y.S.3d 671 [2016] ).
ADJUDGED that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.
GARRY, J.P., LYNCH, ROSE, CLARK and MULVEY, JJ., concur.