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People v. Rikers Island Warden

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 21, 2007
41 A.D.3d 292 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)

Summary

speaking in terms of the hearing notice being “one day late” as opposed to several hours late

Summary of this case from Dowling v. Venable

Opinion

No. 1414.

June 21, 2007.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert G. Seewald, J.), entered August 7, 2006, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

William Thompson, appellant pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York (Hannah Stith Long of counsel), for respondents.

Before: Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Sweeny, McGuire and Kavanagh, JJ.


Petitioner, who argued before the application court that the warrant for his parole violation was executed on April 1, 2006, when he was arrested on unrelated drug charges, now argues for the first time on appeal that the warrant was executed on April 3, when he appeared for arraignment on the drug charges. Were we to consider this unpreserved argument, and were we to assume in petitioner's favor that the warrant was executed on April 3, not April 4, as indicated by respondents' presumptively regular records, we would affirm denial of the writ. An April 3 execution date would mean that the 15-day time limit for actually holding a preliminary parole revocation hearing (Executive Law § 259-i [c] [i]) was satisfied by the April 18 hearing, but that the three-day time limit for giving notice of that hearing (Executive Law § 259-i [c] [iii]) was one day late. However, unlike the 15-day time limit, a failure to comply with the three-day time limit does not affect the right to be restored to parole absent a showing of prejudice ( People ex rel. Washington v New York State Div. of Parole, 279 AD2d 379, 380). Petitioner does not allege or show any prejudice as a result of the claimed one-day delay. Petitioner's unpreserved claim that he did not receive notice that the hearing had been rescheduled from April 19 to April 18 is unavailing for similar reasons. Notice of a change in the scheduled date of a preliminary hearing is not required by the Executive Law, and a failure to give such notice is not a violation of a parolee's rights ( People ex rel. Walker v Warden of Rikers Is. Correctional Facility, 160 AD2d 498).


Summaries of

People v. Rikers Island Warden

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 21, 2007
41 A.D.3d 292 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)

speaking in terms of the hearing notice being “one day late” as opposed to several hours late

Summary of this case from Dowling v. Venable
Case details for

People v. Rikers Island Warden

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. WILLIAM THOMPSON, Appellant…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jun 21, 2007

Citations

41 A.D.3d 292 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 5434
839 N.Y.S.2d 47

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