Case Name: In the Matter of Jason Grant, Appellant, v. Daniel Senkowski, as Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-03-02
Citations: 270 A.D.2d 536
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jason Grant, Appellant, v Daniel Senkowski, as Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jason Grant, Appellant, v Daniel Senkowski, as Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents.
[704 NYS2d 678]

Opinion:
—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Canfield, J.), entered May 10, 1999 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondents' motion to dismiss the petition as time barred.
Petitioner, a prison inmate, brought this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a determination finding him guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule prohibiting possession of a weapon. Supreme Court granted respondents' motion to dismiss the petition on Statute of Limitations grounds. Petitioner appeals and we affirm.
Supreme Court correctly found that petitioner received notice of the determination no later than June 25, 1998 and, pursuant to CPLR 217 (1), had four months in which to commence the proceeding (see, Matter of Shell v McCray, 261 AD2d 664). Petitioner did not commence the proceeding, however, until November 10, 1998, when the order to show cause and petition were filed with the Albany County Clerk. Petitioner's placement of the unsigned order to show cause and petition in the facility mailbox only five days prior to the expiration of the Statute of Limitations was clearly insufficient, and we conclude that the proceeding was properly dismissed as untimely (see, Matter of Marcus v New York State Div. of Parole, 264 AD2d 919; Matter of Shell v McCray, supra).
Mercure, J. P., Crew III, Peters, Carpinello and Graffeo, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.