¶ Petitioner was sentenced in 1966 to a term of life imprisonment for the crime of murder in the first degree. Pursuant to subdivision 6 of former section 1945 of the Penal Law, petitioner's minimum period of imprisonment was automatically set at 40 years, which period was reducible by as much as one third in the form of good-time allowances (former Correction Law, § 230). Under the old law, petitioner conceivably would have become eligible for parole in March,...
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