MATTER OF MURRAY v. GOORD


1 N.Y.3d 29 (2003)

801 N.E.2d 385

769 N.Y.S.2d 165

In the Matter of RICKY MURRAY, Respondent, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Eric A. Johnson, Caitlin J. Halligan, Daniel Smirlock and Denise A. Hartman of counsel), for appellants.

Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn (Andrew E. Abraham and Russell R. Neufeld of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges G.B. SMITH, CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT and GRAFFEO concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

READ, J.

In 1996, petitioner was convicted after a jury trial of both criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. The trial judge sentenced him to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 7½ to 15 years. The next year, a second trial judge sentenced petitioner, upon his plea of guilty to...

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