Court Opinion

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

398
CA 13-02041
PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., CENTRA, PERADOTTO, CARNI, AND SCONIERS, JJ.

IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL SHAW,
PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

                      V                           MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BRIAN FISCHER, COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK STATE
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY
SUPERVISION, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

WYOMING COUNTY-ATTICA LEGAL AID BUREAU, WARSAW (LEAH R. NOWOTARSKI OF
COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-APPELLANT.

ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (PETER H. SCHIFF OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Wyoming County (Mark
H. Dadd, A.J.), entered October 9, 2013 pursuant to a CPLR article 78
proceeding. The judgment confirmed the determination of respondent
and dismissed the petition.

     It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is
unanimously affirmed without costs.

     Memorandum: Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding
seeking to annul the determination, following a tier III disciplinary
hearing, that he violated inmate rule 102.10 (7 NYCRR 270.2 [B] [3]
[i] [threats]) and rule 104.11 (7 NYCRR 270.2 [B] [5] [ii] [threats of
violent conduct]). The record on appeal does not support petitioner’s
contention that he was deprived of his right to attend the hearing.
To the contrary, the escort officer testified at the hearing that
petitioner had refused to attend, despite having been advised that the
hearing would proceed in his absence (see Matter of Rouse v Fischer,
94 AD3d 1310, 1310; Matter of Abreu v Bezio, 84 AD3d 1596, 1596-1597,
lv dismissed 17 NY3d 781, appeal dismissed 17 NY3d 915). We further
conclude that, based upon his refusal to attend the hearing,
petitioner has failed to preserve any procedural challenges to the
manner in which those hearings were conducted (see Matter of McFadden
v Dubray, 61 AD3d 1170, 1171; Matter of Cooper v Selsky, 43 AD3d 1254,
1255, lv dismissed 9 NY3d 1026).

Entered:    March 27, 2015                      Frances E. Cafarell
                                                Clerk of the Court