Ronald Baez, Pine City, petitioner pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents.
Opinion
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Chemung County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
Based upon an investigation in which confidential information was received, correction officials learned that petitioner was involved in a plan to assault a correction officer. As a result, he was charged in a misbehavior report with attempting to assault staff and engaging in violent conduct.
Petitioner was found guilty of the charges following a tier III disciplinary hearing, and the determination was affirmed on administrative appeal with a modified penalty. This CPLR article 78 proceeding followed.
We confirm. The misbehavior report, testimony of the correction sergeant who conducted the investigation and confidential information considered by the Hearing Officer in camera provide substantial evidence supporting the determination of guilt (see Matter of Rossi v. Fischer, 118 A.D.3d 1213, 1213, 987 N.Y.S.2d 273 [2014] ; Matter of Smythe v. Fischer, 102 A.D.3d 1039, 1040, 957 N.Y.S.2d 918 [2013] ). Petitioner's remaining claims were not raised at the hearing and have not been preserved for our review (see Matter of Robinson v. Annucci, 122 A.D.3d 981, 982, 994 N.Y.S.2d 477 [2014] ; Matter of Dizak v. Prack, 120 A.D.3d 1472, 1473, 992 N.Y.S.2d 373 [2014], lv. denied 24 N.Y.3d 916, 2015 WL 687276 [2015] ).
ADJUDGED that the determination is confirmed, without costs, and petition dismissed.
GARRY, J.P., EGAN JR., DEVINE and CLARK, JJ., concur.