Phillips v. Travis

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Teresi, J.), entered September 9, 1998 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a *890proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying petitioner’s request for parole release.

Petitioner is a prison inmate currently serving two concurrent 5 to 15-year prison sentences following his conviction of the crimes of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Both convictions stem from petitioner’s shooting of an off-duty police officer. The State Board of…