MATTER OF COUSER v. GOORD


1 A.D.3d 663 (2003)

766 N.Y.S.2d 461

In the Matter of JOHNNY COUSER, Appellant, v. GLENN S. GOORD, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.

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

November 6, 2003.


Spain, J.

While incarcerated in the Monroe County jail, petitioner hired a hit man to kill a potential witness, who instead killed the witness's wife and shot her two grandchildren. Upon his subsequent conviction of murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree and conspiracy in the first degree, petitioner was sentenced to life in prison without parole. While serving that sentence, petitioner was granted permission...

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