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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Al Blake, Petitioner, v Philip Coombe, Jr., as Acting Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Respondent.
    [642 NYS2d 831]
   Determination unanimously confirmed without costs and petition dismissed. Memorandum: We reject the argument of petitioner that he was denied the right to call a witness at the disciplinary hearing. The record does not establish that petitioner requested the testimony of that witness at the disciplinary hearing (see, Matter of Gomez v Coughlin, 140 AD2d 902, 904).

The determination that petitioner violated inmate rule 113.10 (7 NYCRR 270.2 [B] [14] [i]), prohibiting possession of a weapon by an inmate, is supported by substantial evidence. Petitioner’s denial of the charge raised an issue of credibility, which the Hearing Officer resolved against petitioner (see, Matter of Perez v Wilmot, 67 NY2d 615, 617). (CPLR art 78 Proceeding Transferred by Order of Supreme Court, Wyoming County, Dadd, J.) Present—Pine, J. P., Wesley, Callahan, Doerr and Boehm, JJ.