Case Name: In the Matter of Jose Rivera, Petitioner, v. William D. Brown, as Superintendent of Eastern Correctional Facility, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2008-09-11
Citations: 54 A.D.3d 1089
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jose Rivera, Petitioner, v William D. Brown, as Superintendent of Eastern Correctional Facility, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 54
Pages: 1089–1089

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jose Rivera, Petitioner, v William D. Brown, as Superintendent of Eastern Correctional Facility, Respondent.
[862 NYS2d 919]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster County) to review a determination of respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.
Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging a tier II disciplinary determination finding him guilty of smoking in an undesignated area. The Attorney General has advised this Court that the determination in issue has been administratively reversed and all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record. Accordingly, petitioner has been afforded all of the relief to which he is entitled and this matter must be dismissed as moot (see Matter of Pujals v Fischer, 50 AD3d 1438 [2008]).
Cardona, EJ., Mercure, Carpinello, Kane and Malone Jr., JJ., concur. Adjudged that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.