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People ex Rel. Pignone v. LeFevre

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 18, 1984
102 A.D.2d 877 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)

Opinion

June 18, 1984


In a habeas corpus proceeding brought by a State prisoner to expunge from his institutional records all reference to certain parole violation charges which were dismissed for failure to provide him with a timely parole revocation hearing, petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Slifkin, J.), entered June 22, 1983, which denied the application. ¶ Judgment reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, matter converted to a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, and petition granted to the extent that respondents are directed to expunge all reference to the parole violation charges in question from petitioner's institutional records. ¶ Petitioner, a State prisoner, commenced this proceeding to expunge references to certain parole violation charges from his institutional records. The charges had been dismissed on the Parole Board's consent because petitioner did not receive a timely final revocation hearing. Special Term denied expungement. We reverse. ¶ At the outset, we note that habeas corpus is not an appropriate vehicle to obtain expungement since petitioner is currently incarcerated on another conviction, unrelated to the one on which he was previously paroled and does not now seek release from custody. Exercising our discretion pursuant to CPLR 103 (subd [c]), we convert it to a CPLR article 78 proceeding. ¶ On the merits, it is clear that the parole violation charges were never established. Since they cannot, therefore, be considered by the Parole Board in the future, expungement is an appropriate remedy (see Matter of Collins v Hammock, 52 N.Y.2d 798; Matter of Mallard v. Dalsheim, 97 A.D.2d 545, 547; Matter of Grosvenor v. Dalsheim, 90 A.D.2d 485; Matter of Hilton v. Dalsheim, 81 A.D.2d 887). Mollen, P.J., Titone, Lazer and Thompson, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People ex Rel. Pignone v. LeFevre

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 18, 1984
102 A.D.2d 877 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)
Case details for

People ex Rel. Pignone v. LeFevre

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. KENNETH PIGNONE, Appellant, v…

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

Date published: Jun 18, 1984

Citations

102 A.D.2d 877 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)

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