Brown v. New York City Department of Correction

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Byrne, J.), entered November 13, 2000, which denied petitioner inmate’s application to annul respondent Department of Correction’s determination finding petitioner guilty of assaulting and refusing an order of a correction officer, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner’s due process rights were not violated by the action of the Hearing Officer in not personally questioning two inmate witnesses about their reasons for refusing to testify. *163The record shows that the Hearing Officer telephoned the correction officer at the housing unit where the…