People ex rel. Lewis v New York State Div. of Parole
2009 NY Slip Op 02235 [60 AD3d 539]
March 24, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


The People of the State of New York ex rel. Herbert Lewis, Appellant,
v
New York State Division of Parole, Respondent.

[*1] Susanna De La Pava, New York, for appellant.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York (Marion R. Buchbinder of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ralph Fabrizio, J.), entered June 4, 2007, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed the proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although the remedy of habeas corpus is unavailable because petitioner is no longer in custody, this proceeding is not moot because, among other things, it affects parole time credited to petitioner. Therefore, we consider the matter as a CPLR article 78 proceeding (see CPLR 103 [c]). Nevertheless, petitioner's arguments are without merit. Regardless of any alleged indications to the contrary, petitioner's 1994 sentence ran consecutively to his previous sentences (see People ex rel. Gill v Greene, 12 NY3d 1 [2009]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Nardelli, Catterson and Moskowitz, JJ.