| People ex rel. Powell v New York State Dept. of Correctional
Servs. |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 05596 [64 AD3d 1201] |
| July 2, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau
pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| As corrected through Wednesday, September 2, 2009 |
| The People of the State of New York ex rel. Calvin Powell,
Appellant, v New York State Department of Correctional Services,
Respondent. |
—[*1]The case is held, the decision is reserved, the motion
to relieve counsel of assignment is granted, and new counsel is to be assigned. Memorandum: In
denying relator's habeas corpus petition, Supreme Court held that "[u]pon his release to
post-release supervision, the balance of the maximum term on his indeterminate sentence was
properly held in abeyance pursuant to Penal Law § 70.45 (5) (a)." However, relator's
indeterminate sentence arose from a crime committed in 1997, prior to the effective date of Penal
Law § 70.45. Thus, a nonfrivolous issue exists as to whether this provision was properly
applied. Therefore, we relieve counsel of his assignment and assign new counsel to brief this
issue, as well as any other issues that counsel's review of the record may disclose. (Appeal from
Supreme Court, Wyoming County, Mark H. Dadd, J.—Habeas Corpus.)
Present—Scudder, P.J., Smith, Centra, Peradotto and Green, JJ.