Legal Opinion

Hand v. Gutwein

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

Decided January 23, 2014PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

We affirm. In situations where an inmate is improperly denied the right to call a witness at a disciplinary hearing, the appropriate remedy of remittal or expungement depends upon whether the situation constitutes a regulatory or constitutional *976violation (see Matter of Alvarez v Goord, 30 AD3d 118, 121 [2006]). “[W]hile [a] hearing officer’s actual outright denial of a witness without a stated good-faith reason, or lack of any effort to obtain a requested witness’s testimony, constitutes a clear constitutional violation [requiring expungement,] [mjost other situations constitute regulatory…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Alvarez v. GoordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  2. Morris-Hill v. FischerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  3. Buari v. FischerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  4. Deboue v. FischerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  5. Gross v. YelichAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Harriott v. KoenigsmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
  2. Hand v. GreeneAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
  3. Matter of Jackson v. PrackAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015
  4. Matter of McFarlane v. AnnucciAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  5. Humphrey v. VenettozziAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017

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