PEOPLE EX REL. WARD v. AWOPETU

721 KAH 18-01512.

187 A.D.3d 1576 (2020)

132 N.Y.S.3d 491

2020 NY Slip Op 05375

The People of the State of New York ex rel. George Ward, Appellant, v. Akinyemi Awopetu, Superintendent, Livingston Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department.

Decided October 2, 2020.


It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: In the 1960s, "petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree after he fatally strangled a 76-year-old woman, then stole money from her apartment and engaged in sex with her corpse" (Matter of Ward v New York State Div. of Parole, 144 A.D.3d 1375, 1376 [3d Dept 2016]). He was sentenced to an indeterminate period...

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