Zheng v. Evans

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Sullivan County) to review a determination of the Board of Parole denying petitioner’s request for parole release.

In 1992, petitioner was convicted, after a jury trial, of one count of kidnapping in the first degree as the result of his participation in the kidnapping and brutal beating of an illegal Chinese immigrant. Petitioner was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison and the conviction was thereafter affirmed upon appeal (People v Mei Zheng, 253 AD2d 704 [1998]). In August 2010,…