Case Name: In the Matter of Michael Hughes, Appellant, v. Corey Bedard, as Acting Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2014-05-15
Citations: 117 A.D.3d 1246
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Michael Hughes, Appellant, v Corey Bedard, as Acting Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
Judges: Lahtinen, J.P, McCarthy, Garry and Egan Jr., JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 1246–1247

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Michael Hughes, Appellant, v Corey Bedard, as Acting Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
[984 NYS2d 887]

Opinion:
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Zwack, J.), entered January 16, 2013 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.
Following a tier III prison disciplinary hearing, petitioner was found guilty of drug use and violating family reunion program procedures. Upon administrative appeal, the determination was administratively reversed and a rehearing ordered due to an incomplete electronic recording of the hearing.
In cases such as this one, where the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision has yet to "issue[ ] a final determination, it is entirely proper for the Commissioner to order a rehearing upon his administrative review of an inmate disciplinary proceeding, even where an error sought to be corrected is of constitutional magnitude" (Matter of Stephens v Goord, 273 AD2d 656, 657 [2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 766 [2000]; see Matter of Higgins v Selsky, 27 AD3d 913, 914 [2006]). As we find no basis to conclude that a rehearing was improperly ordered, Supreme Court properly dismissed the proceeding (see Matter of Stephens v Goord, 273 AD2d at 657).
Lahtinen, J.P, McCarthy, Garry and Egan Jr., JJ., concur.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.