Court Opinion

ID: 4110848
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Date Created: 2016-12-23 20:09:47.662385+00
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

1204
TP 16-00613
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., LINDLEY, DEJOSEPH, NEMOYER, AND TROUTMAN, JJ.

IN THE MATTER OF RYAN BRADWAY, PETITIONER,

                      V                           MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ANTHONY ANNUCCI, ACTING COMMISSIONER,
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND
COMMUNITY SUPERVISION, RESPONDENT.

RYAN BRADWAY, PETITIONER PRO SE.

ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (MARCUS J. MASTRACCO OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

     Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial
Department by order of the Supreme Court, Oneida County [Bernadette T.
Clark, J.], entered March 29, 2016) to review a determination of
respondent. The determination found after a tier III hearing that
petitioner had violated an inmate rule.

     It is hereby ORDERED that the determination is unanimously
confirmed without costs and the petition is dismissed.

     Memorandum: Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding
seeking to annul the determination, following a tier III disciplinary
hearing, that he violated inmate rule 113.24 (7 NYCRR 270.2 [B] [14]
[xiv] [using drugs]). At the outset, we note that, “ ‘[b]ecause the
petition did not raise a substantial evidence issue, Supreme Court
erred in transferring the proceeding to this Court’ ” (Matter of
Wearen v Deputy Supt. Bish, 2 AD3d 1361, 1362). Nevertheless, we
review the two issues raised by petitioner in the interest of judicial
economy (see id.), i.e., that his employee assistant was inadequate
and his hearing was not timely. Petitioner failed to raise those
contentions during his tier III hearing and thus failed to preserve
them for our review (see Matter of Reeves v Goord, 248 AD2d 994, 995,
lv denied 92 NY2d 804).

Entered:    December 23, 2016                   Frances E. Cafarell
                                                Clerk of the Court