Legal Opinion
Bentley v. Dennison
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 10, 2012No. Nos. 11 Civ. 1056(SAS), 11 Civ. 3200(SAS)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Beginning in 1998, New York mandated that certain violent felonies be punished by a determinate prison sentence followed by a mandatory term of parole, known as post-release supervision (“PRS”).1 The governing statute did not require that the term of PRS be announced by the judge at sentencing. In thousands of cases where the judge did not impose a term of PRS at sentencing, the New York State Department of. Correctional Services (“DOCS”) imposed PRS on convicted felons either before or as they were released from prison and…
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