Matter of Smith v Goord
2007 NY Slip Op 06199 [42 AD3d 839]
July 26, 2007
Appellate Division, Third Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, September 12, 2007


In the Matter of Preston A. Smith, Appellant, v Glenn S. Goord, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Respondent.

[*1] Preston A. Smith, Malone, appellant pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McNamara, J.), entered October 11, 2006 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review four determinations of respondent finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, initiated this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging four separate disciplinary determinations rendered against him. However, inasmuch as the controlling four-month statute of limitations (see CPLR 217 [1]) had long since expired with respect to each of the final determinations by the time that petitioner commenced this proceeding, Supreme Court properly dismissed the petition as untimely (see Matter of Morales v Selsky, 288 AD2d 805, 806 [2001]). In view of our disposition, we need not address the remaining contentions set forth in petitioner's brief.

Cardona, P.J., Crew III, Mugglin, Rose and Lahtinen, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.