Medina v. New York State Department of Correctional Services

OPINION OF THE COURT

Michael C. Lynch, J.

Petitioner Louis Medina, an inmate at the Gouverneur Correctional Facility, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking review of a determination by respondent New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) to impose a five-year period of postrelease supervision on his sentence pursuant to Penal Law § 70.45. By decision and order dated August 15, 2008 (Lynch, J.), this court granted the petition, because, as the most recent cases from the Appellate Division and “the Court of Appeals make clear, only the sentencing judge is authorized to…