Young v. Goord

*914OPINION OF THE COURT

Dan Lamont, J.

Petitioner Tennyison Young, a "State-ready” inmate confined at the Albany County Penitentiary, on October 8, 1998 filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking his transfer to the State prison system forthwith pursuant to CPL 430.20 (1).

This court initially determined that the petitioner was not illegally detained — having been sentenced on August 21, 1998, as a second felony offender to an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment of 2V2 to 5 years upon his conviction of robbery in the third degree; however, this court upon its own motion converted the…