Reeder v. Annucci

• Decision Date: 09 November 2017
• Docket Number: 524417.
• Parties: In the Matter of Raszell REEDER, Appellant, v. Anthony J. ANNUCCI, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

155 A.D.3d 1203
63 N.Y.S.3d 274 (Mem)

In the Matter of Raszell REEDER, Appellant,
v.
Anthony J. ANNUCCI, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent.

524417.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.

Nov. 9, 2017.

Raszell Reeder, Malone, appellant pro se.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Feldstein, J.), entered December 28, 2016 in Franklin County, which, among other things, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, dismissed the petition.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, sought to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding by order to show cause seeking, insofar as may be gleaned from the accompanying petition, to challenge an unfavorable administrative determination against him and to require the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to adopt a new security policy relative to the use of video cameras at its correctional facilities. Although the record contains an affidavit of service, the Attorney General has advised this Court that respondent was not served with the relevant papers and did not appear in the proceeding before Supreme Court. Supreme Court—apparently sua sponte—declined to execute the order to show cause and dismissed the petition without prejudice, citing petitioner's failure to comply with the pleading requirements set forth in CPLR 3013. This appeal by petitioner ensued.

We affirm. To the extent that the petition may be read as challenging either an adverse prison disciplinary determination or the denial of a grievance filed by petitioner,

63 N.Y.S.3d 275

the record is devoid of "any indication that petitioner has exhausted his administrative remedies with regard thereto" (Matter of DePonceau v. Fischer, 93 A.D.3d 1040, 1041, 940 N.Y.S.2d 493 [2012], appeal dismissed 19 N.Y.3d 897, 949 N.Y.S.2d 340, 972 N.E.2d 505 [2012] ). As to the balance of the petition, which Supreme Court aptly characterized as containing "a variety of scattered, conclusory allegations that are lacking in context and [are] otherwise extremely difficult to understand," we agree that the statements...