Opinion
05-07-2015
In the Matter of Carl GEE, Appellant, v. Richard DESIMONE, as Associate Counsel in Charge of Office of Sentencing Review, Respondent.
Carl Gee, Auburn, appellant pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Carl Gee, Auburn, appellant pro se.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Mercure, J.), entered August 27, 2013 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to compel respondent to notify the sentencing court and other individuals, in accordance with Correction Law § 601–a, that he was erroneously sentenced in 1998 as a persistent violent felony offender. Supreme Court granted respondent's motion to dismiss the petition, finding that petitioner was collaterally estopped from relitigating his claims inasmuch as he previously had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the identical issues in a prior CPLR article 78 proceeding that was decided against him.
We affirm. As the record reflects that petitioner has already challenged his status as a persistent violent felony offender in a prior CPLR article 78 proceeding, he is barred from raising the same issue in this proceeding (see Matter of Martin v. Central Off. Review Comm. of N.Y. State Dept. of Correctional Servs., 69 A.D.3d 1237, 1238, 893 N.Y.S.2d 694 [2010] ; People ex rel. Washington v. Napoli, 69 A.D.3d 1066, 1067, 894 N.Y.S.2d 181 [2010], appeal dismissed 14 N.Y.3d 858, 901 N.Y.S.2d 139, 927 N.E.2d 560 [2010] ; Matter of LaRocco v. Goord, 43 A.D.3d 500, 500, 840 N.Y.S.2d 477 [2007] ). Petitioner's remaining contentions have been reviewed and found to be unpersuasive.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.
PETERS, P.J., GARRY, LYNCH and DEVINE, JJ., concur.