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MATTER OF BEZIO v. DORSEY

No. 65.

21 N.Y.3d 93 (2013)

989 N.E.2d 942

967 N.Y.S.2d 660

2013 NY Slip Op 3118

In the Matter of NORMAN BEZIO, as Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, Respondent, v. LEROY DORSEY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided May 2, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheila E. Shea , Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Albany ( Shannon Stockwell of counsel), for appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General, Albany ( Andrea Oser , Barbara D. Underwood and Martin A. Hotvet of counsel), for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GRAFFEO, J.

Respondent Leroy Dorsey, an inmate in the custody of the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), is a serial hunger striker. In 2010 he undertook a month-long hunger strike, contending that he was not suicidal but had ceased eating in order to secure transfer to another DOCCS facility and bring attention to certain claims of mistreatment. The issue before...

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