Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging his underlying conviction. Supreme Court dismissed the petition, concluding that petitioner's challenges were not properly raised in a CPLR article 78 proceeding. Inasmuch as "[a]n article 78 proceeding generally does not lie to review error claimed to have occurred in a criminal proceeding" (Matter of Hennessy v Gorman,
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