People ex rel. Budden v. Taylor

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Feldstein, J), entered September 1, 2009 in St. Lawrence County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

In 1994, petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree, two counts of robbery in the first degree and attempted robbery in the first degree, and was sentenced to an aggregate term of SVs to 25 years in prison. He brought this CPLR article 70 proceeding seeking a writ of habeas corpus on the basis that a certificate of conviction was never issued.…