Opinion
2013-06-13
In the Matter of Trazz SAWYER, Petitioner, v. Brian FISCHER, as Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent.
Trazz Sawyer, Moravia, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
Trazz Sawyer, Moravia, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff 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 respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a determination finding him guilty of violating various 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 *701surcharge has been refunded to petitioner's inmate account. Although petitioner urges this Court to nevertheless review the matter, the questions presented do not come within the exception to the mootness doctrine ( see Matter of Afrika v. Jones, 148 A.D.2d 811, 538 N.Y.S.2d 1015 [1989],lv. denied74 N.Y.2d 607, 545 N.Y.S.2d 103, 543 N.E.2d 746 [1989] ). Accordingly, petitioner has received all the relief to which he is entitled and the petition must be dismissed as moot ( see Matter of Harding v. Fischer, 102 A.D.3d 1022, 1023, 957 N.Y.S.2d 909 [2013] ).
ADJUDGED that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.