People ex rel. Cortez v. Wilmot

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered April 22,1977 in Chemung County, which dismissed a writ of habeas corpus after a hearing. The issue is whether the New York State Board of Parole may add delinquent reformatory time to a subsequent maximum expiration date imposed for a crime committed while on parole. The Court of Appeals in Matter of Balmer v New York State Bd. of Parole (42 NY2d 939) found that such an addition of reformatory time would violate a convict’s right to due process. We reached a similar result in Matter of Dixon v Chairman, N. Y. State Bd. of…