Malik v. Coombe

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Torraca, J.), entered May 10, 1996 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, dismissed petitioner’s petition as moot.

Petitioner, a former inmate at Queensboro Correctional Facility in Queens County, was disqualified from participation in the facility’s temporary release program because he had engaged in criminal conduct during his previous participation in a temporary release program in August 1994, which in April 1995 lead to his conviction of the crimes of criminal possession of stolen property (i.e., stolen credit…