People ex rel. Dixon v. Chairman of the New York State Board of Parole

This is an article 78 proceeding wherein petitioner, an inmate at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, seeks an order requiring respondent to modify his maximum expiration date of incarceration by removing the one year of reformatory delinquent time which has been added thereto by reason of his most recent conviction. Although this proceeding was originally commenced as an article 78 proceeding by petitioner pro se, his present counsel erroneously refers in his papers to this proceeding as a writ of habeas corpus. This court will disregard this error.

The facts are not in dispute and are set…