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HEARING OFFICER DID NOT MAKE AN ADEQUATE EFFORT TO FIND WITNESSES, NEW HEARING REQUIRED.

The Third Department determined the hearing officer's failure to make an adequate attempt to locate the witnesses petitioner wanted to testify at the hearing required a new hearing:

At the hearing, petitioner requested the testimony of two fellow inmates. He did not know the inmates' names, but identified them by their nicknames and each of the cell blocks in which they were housed. Although the Hearing Officer made a phone call in an effort to locate one of these inmates, he made no effort to locate the other one, stating that petitioner did not provide him with enough information. Although petitioner's description of the requested witnesses was limited, in our view it was sufficiently detailed in that an attempt to locate them would not have been overly burdensome. Accordingly, the Hearing Officer's failure to make a reasonable effort to locate the inmates violated petitioner's right to call witnesses … . * * *

Given that the Hearing Officer articulated a good-faith reason for denying the witnesses and for his lack of effort in locating them, we find that petitioner's regulatory right to call witnesses was violated and not his constitutional right, and remittal for a new hearing is the proper remedy… . Matter of Allaway v Prack, 2016 NY Slip Op 03777, 3rd Dept 5-12-16

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