Gibbs v. Travis

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Ceresia, Jr., J.), entered July 26, 1996 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying petitioner’s request for parole.

Petitioner is an inmate at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County, serving a prison term of 9 to 18 years following his conviction in 1986 of the crime of robbery in the first degree. This crime was committed while petitioner was on parole from a sentence imposed for a prior weapons-related offense. In February…