Estrella v. Coughlin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Estrella v. Coughlin

131 A.D.2d 760, 517 N.Y.S.2d 57, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 48204

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedJune 22, 1987

StatusPublished

Cited by6 cases

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Estrella v. Coughlin, 131 A.D.2d 760, 517 N.Y.S.2d 57, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 48204 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1987).

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In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to (1) review a determination of the Superintendant of the Taconic Correctional Facility, dated July 22, 1985, finding the petitioner guilty of certain stated charges of misconduct, after a Superintendent’s proceeding, and imposing a penalty therefor, and (2) compel the respondents to expunge the mention of the charges from his institutional record, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), entered April 3, 1986, which granted the petition, vacated the determination dated July 22, 1985, dismissed the charges, and ordered the appellants to expunge the mention of the charges from the petitioner’s institutional record.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

As the appellants failed to introduce any evidence that the confidential information they had received was from a reliable source, which is required before a prisoner can be ordered to undergo urinalysis (see, New York Dept of Correctional Ser vs Directive 4937 [D] [1] [d], now 7 NYCRR 1020.4 [a] [4]), the Supreme Court properly concluded that the determination dated July 22, 1985, should be vacated, the charges dismissed, and all mention of those charges expunged from the petitioner’s institutional record. Mangano, J. P., Niehoff, Spatt and Harwood, JJ., concur.

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In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to (1) review a determination of the Superintendant of the Taconic Correctional Facility, dated July 22, 1985, finding the petitioner guilty of certain stated charges of misconduct, after a Superintendent’s proceeding, and imposing a penalty therefor, and (2) compel the respondents to expunge the mention of the charges from his institutional record, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), entered April 3, 1986, which granted the petition, vacated the determination dated July 22, 1985, dismissed the charges, and ordered the appellants to expunge the mention of the charges from the petitioner’s institutional record.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

As the appellants failed to introduce any evidence that the confidential information they had received was from a reliable source, which is required before a prisoner can be ordered to undergo urinalysis (see, New York Dept of Correctional Ser vs Directive 4937 [D] [1] [d], now 7 NYCRR 1020.4 [a] [4]), the Supreme Court properly concluded that the determination dated July 22, 1985, should be vacated, the charges dismissed, and all mention of those charges expunged from the petitioner’s institutional record. Mangano, J. P., Niehoff, Spatt and Harwood, JJ., concur.

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131 A.D.2d 760, 517 N.Y.S.2d 57, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 48204, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/estrella-v-coughlin-nyappdiv-1987.

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