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

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Peter Catapano, Appellant, v Harold J. Smith, as Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent.
   Judgment unanimously affirmed, in accordance with the following memorandum: A writ of habeas corpus is not the proper proceeding to challenge the legality of petitioner’s confinement in a special housing unit (People ex rel. Dawson v Smith, 69 NY2d 689). The habeas corpus proceeding was properly converted to a CPLR article 78 proceeding but, because it was instituted more than four months after the determination, the proceeding should have been dismissed as time barred (see, People ex rel. Dawson v Smith, supra, at 691). (Appeal from judgment of Supreme Court, Wyoming County, McCarthy, J. — habeas corpus.) Present — Denman, J. P., Boomer, Balio, Lawton and Davis, JJ.