Booker v. Laffin

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Melkonian, J.), entered January 12, 2012 in Ulster County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent Superintendent of Wallkill Correctional Facility calculating petitioner’s jail time credit.

In 1998, while on parole from a 1995 conviction, petitioner was arrested and charged with a new offense. Petitioner remained incarcerated in county jail while he awaited resolution of the 1998 offense, but no parole violation proceedings were commenced. On January 30, 1999,…