Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.
During a May 28, 1991, prison uprising at Southport Correctional Facility, the petitioner held a correction officer hostage, keeping a metal leg restraint chain wrapped around the officer's neck and holding a sharpened metal shank against the officer's throat. The officer was stripped naked and handcuffed, and was bleeding from...
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