                          State of New York
                   Supreme Court, Appellate Division
                      Third Judicial Department
Decided and Entered: June 23, 2016                     521401
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In the Matter of JASON SMITH,
                    Petitioner,
      v                                     MEMORANDUM AND JUDGMENT

DONALD VENETTOZZI, as Acting
   Director of Special Housing
   and Inmate Disciplinary
   Programs,
                    Respondent.
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Calendar Date:   May 3, 2016

Before:   Lahtinen, J.P., Garry, Egan Jr., Lynch and Mulvey, JJ.

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     Jason Smith, New York City, petitioner pro se.

      Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J.
Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.

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      Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this
Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to
review a determination of the Commissioner of Corrections and
Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating
certain prison disciplinary rules.

     Determination confirmed.      No opinion.

      Lahtinen, J.P., Garry, Egan Jr., Lynch and Mulvey, JJ.,
concur.
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      ADJUDGED that the determination is confirmed, without
costs, and petition dismissed.




                             ENTER:




                             Robert D. Mayberger
                             Clerk of the Court
