Case Name: In the Matter of Helder Pena, Petitioner, v. Donald Selsky, as Director of Special Housing/Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-12-12
Citations: 300 A.D.2d 797
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Helder Pena, Petitioner, v Donald Selsky, as Director of Special Housing/Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 300
Pages: 797–797

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Helder Pena, Petitioner, v Donald Selsky, as Director of Special Housing/Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
[750 NYS2d 797]

Opinion:
—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a determination finding him guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules that prohibit failing to comply with the guidelines regarding facility correspondence and providing legal assistance without prior approval. The Attorney General has advised this Court by letter that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed and all references thereto were directed to be expunged from petitioner's institutional record. Inasmuch as petitioner has received all the relief to which he is entitled and is no longer aggrieved, the matter is dismissed as moot (see Matter of Watson v Goord, 294 AD2d 725).
Crew III, J.P., Peters, Spain, Rose and Kane, JJ., concur. Adjudged that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.