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In the Matter of KRISTOFER SURDIS, Petitioner, v. JAMES WALSH, as Superintendent of Sulli

MEMORANDUM AND JUDGMENT

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules prohibiting harassment, making threats and violating correctional facility correspondence procedures after it was determined that he was the author of a letter, sent to an IGA grocery store, wherein he threatened to "come into your store with shotguns and knives to shoot you all dead." Petitioner pleaded guilty to all three charges, thereby precluding him from challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the determination of his guilt (see Matter of Kalid v. Farrell, 284 A.D.2d 603). Nonetheless, substantial evidence of petitioner's guilt of the charged misconduct was presented at his disciplinary hearing in the form of the misbehavior report, the testimony of the correction counselor who prepared it and the taped confidential testimony that petitioner was neither confused nor psychotic at the time he wrote the threatening letter (see Matter of Rodriguez v. Goord, 261 A.D.2d 740, 741, lv denied 93 N.Y.2d 818). The remaining contentions raised by petitioner have been reviewed and found to be without merit.

Mercure, J.P., Peters, Carpinello, Rose and Kane, JJ., concur.

ADJUDGED that the determination is confirmed, without costs, and petition dismissed.

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SURDIS v. WALSH
(Jan 23, 2003)