People ex rel. Ortiz v. Commissioner of New York City Department of Correction

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Adlerberg, J.), entered March 14 and April 6, 1995, which dismissed relator’s applications for writs of habeas corpus, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although relator is no longer incarcerated pursuant to the subject charges, the technically moot issue before us should be reviewed in light of its prior inconsistent disposition (compare, e.g., People v Hernandez, 145 Misc 2d 491, with People ex rel. Mack v Warden, 145 Misc 2d 1016) and in light of the circumstance that, although it is an issue of some importance whose resolution will…