Legal Opinion

Matter of Rivas v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

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

Decided February 5, 2015No. 519084Published

1Opinion of the Court

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a de termination of the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner challenges a determination finding him guilty of drug use after his urine sample tested positive for the presence of THC. The Attorney General has advised this Court that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed, all references thereto expunged from petitioner’s institutional record…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Benitez v. FischerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
  2. Martinez v. PrackAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014

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