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PEOPLE EX REL DOWDY v. SMITH

48 N.Y.2d 477 (1979)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edward Dowdy by Donald H. Zuckerman, Appellant, v. Harold J. Smith, as Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 27, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald H. Zuckerman and William E. Hellerstein for appellant.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederick R. Walsh and Shirley Adelson Siegel of counsel), for respondents.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur.

JONES, J.

A prior acquittal based on the defense of entrapment in a criminal proceeding collaterally estops the Board of Parole from revoking parole on the basis of the transactions proved and admitted in the criminal action.

Relator, a multiple felony offender, was on parole under concurrent sentences for robbery in the first degree and felonious possession...

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