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PEOPLE EX REL. MELTSNER v. FOLLETTE

32 A.D.2d 389 (1969)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Michael Meltsner, on Behalf of Charles A. Noak, Appellant, v. Harold W. Follette, as Warden of Green Haven Prison, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

July 14, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Himmelstein and Michael Meltsner for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Michael Jaffe and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for respondent.

CHRIST, Acting P. J., BRENNAN and RABIN, JJ., concur with BENJAMIN, J.; MARTUSCELLO, J., dissents and votes to affirm the judgment, with a memorandum.

BENJAMIN, J.

On this appeal from the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus, we are presented with the question of whether an inmate sentenced to a reformatory term may be transferred to a State prison, treated no differently there than nonreformatory inmates, and confined beyond the maximum term to which he would have been subject had he received a prison sentence.

The relator pleaded guilty to attempted...

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