PEOPLE EX REL. LAWSON v. CASSCLES


47 A.D.2d 574 (1975)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Patrick Lawson, Petitioner, v. J. Leland Casscles, as Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents

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

January 9, 1975


Application, pursuant to CPLR 7002 (subd. [b], par. 2), for writ of habeas corpus, denied for legal insufficiency. Petitioner's discharge from the care and custody of the Drug Abuse Control Commission was authorized by statute (Mental Health Law, § 81.31). Accordingly, there was no unlawful interruption of his 1973 sentence (People v. Taylor, 30 N.Y.2d 899). Petitioner's other contentions as to the illegality of his present...

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