People ex rel. Timothy v. Campbell

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Connolly, J.), entered November 15, 2011 in Albany County, which, among other things, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, upon renewal, adhered to its prior decision denying petitioner’s application for habeas corpus relief.

Following his plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect to charges of arson, petitioner was committed in 2001 to a secure facility operated by the Office of Mental Health, where he remained pursuant to a series of retention orders until 2010, when the Office of Mental Health successfully applied to…