Opinion
2011-11-23
In the Matter of Carl E. CAMPBELL, Petitioner, v. Brian FISCHER, as Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent.
Carl E. Campbell, Elmira, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
Carl E. Campbell, Elmira, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
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 respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.
Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a prison disciplinary determination finding him guilty of the misuse of state property. The Attorney General has informed this Court that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed, all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record and the mandatory surcharge has been credited to his inmate account. As such, petitioner has been awarded all the relief to which he is entitled and the matter must be dismissed as moot ( see Matter of Kairis v. Fischer, 86 A.D.3d 868, 868, 927 N.Y.S.2d 611 [2011]; Matter of Walker v. Fischer, 84 A.D.3d 1659, 1659–1660, 923 N.Y.S.2d 912 [2011] ).
ADJUDGED that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs, but with disbursements in the amount of $15.