Tafari v. Goord

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lamont, J.), entered September 6, 2005 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Department of Correctional Services calculating petitioner’s parole eligibility date.

On May 4, 1989, petitioner was sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender to two concurrent prison terms of 20 years to life. Petitioner contested the manner in which the Department of Correctional Services calculated his parole eligibility date and requested that he be credited with…