| Matter of Olutosin v Annucci |
| 2019 NY Slip Op 05829 [174 AD3d 1262] |
| July 25, 2019 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Ajamu Olutosin, Appellant, v Anthony J. Annucci, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent. |
Ajamu Olutosin, Wallkill, appellant pro se.
Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany (Brian D. Ginsberg of counsel), for respondent.
Clark, J.P. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Hartman, J.), entered October 10, 2018 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision calculating petitioner's parole eligibility date.
In 1987, petitioner was convicted of two counts of murder in the second degree (intentional
murder and felony murder), one count of attempted murder in the second degree and two counts
of robbery in the first degree. He was thereafter sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 25 years
to life on each of the murder convictions. He was also sentenced to prison terms of
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In 2003, the Second Department vacated the sentences and remitted the matter for resentencing, finding that the sentences for the two robbery convictions must run concurrently with the sentence for the felony murder conviction, but that the sentences for the attempted murder conviction and both robbery convictions may run consecutively to each other and to the sentence for the intentional murder conviction (People v Riley, 309 AD2d 879 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 633 [2004]).[FN1] In 2004, upon remittal, petitioner was resentenced to the same sentence as in 1987, with the exception that the sentences for the robbery convictions were ordered to run concurrently with the sentence for the felony murder conviction. This judgment was affirmed on appeal (People v Riley, 22 AD3d 609 [2005], lv denied 6 NY3d 780 [2006]).
Following resentencing, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (hereinafter DOCCS) calculated petitioner's parole eligibility date as October 13, 2044. Petitioner thereafter commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding, arguing that DOCCS violated Penal Law § 70.30 when setting his parole eligibility date and requesting that DOCCS set October 15, 2019 as the appropriate date. Supreme Court dismissed the petition, prompting this appeal.
We affirm. Regarding the calculation of a parole eligibility date, "[a] person who is serving
one or more than one indeterminate sentence of imprisonment may be paroled . . . at
any time after the expiration of the minimum or the aggregate minimum period of the sentence or
sentences" (Penal Law § 70.40 [1] [a] [i]). Inasmuch as petitioner "is serving two or
more indeterminate sentences which run consecutively, the minimum periods of imprisonment
are added to arrive at an aggregate minimum period of imprisonment equal to the sum of all the
minimum periods" (Penal Law § 70.30 [1] [b]). Based upon the commitment papers
accompanying petitioner following the 2004 sentence, we find, contrary to petitioner's
contention, that DOCCS made no errors in calculating petitioner's aggregate minimum period of
imprisonment at 58
Mulvey, Devine, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.