MTR. OF SHAW v. COUGHLIN


101 Misc.2d 864 (1979)

In the Matter of Bernard Shaw, Petitioner, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Acting Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Albany County.

October 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Shaw, petitioner pro se. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Ellen Lacy Messina of counsel), for respondents.


GEORGE L. COBB, J.

In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, an inmate of a correctional facility challenges the manner in which the respondents have computed the minimum and maximum term of his present sentence.

Having been convicted of robbery in the third degree, the petitioner, on May 26, 1972, received a reformatory sentence of no minimum and a maximum of 4 years pursuant to article 75 of the Penal Law...

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