MATTER OF PATTERSON v. SMITH


53 N.Y.2d 98 (1981)

In the Matter of Kenneth A. Patterson, Repsondent, v. Harold J. Smith, as Superintendent of the Attica Correctional Facility, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederick R. Walsh and Shirley Adelson Siegal of counsel), for appellants.

Ronald C. Berger for respondent.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur.


MEYER, J.

This appeal presents the question whether a prison inmate is entitled as a matter of due process to a trial concerning the correctness of an entry in his permanent file that he was involved in a plan to escape from a correctional facility. By article 78 proceeding petitioner sought expungement from his records of all references to such an escape plan. The order entered at Special Term did not direct...

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