People ex rel. Brown v. New York State Board of Parole

In a habeas corpus proceeding, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Coppola, J.), entered May 27, 1986, which sustained a writ of habeas corpus and restored the petitioner to parole status.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the proceeding is converted into an action for a declaratory judgment (see, CPLR 103 [c]), with the petition deemed the complaint, and it is declared that Laws of 1984 (ch 413), amending the Executive Law, is applicable to the respondent’s contentions.

On May 24, 1983, the respondent was…