Legal Opinion

Chang v. Goord

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 20, 2002PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (William McCooe, J.), entered on or about August 4, 2001, which dismissed the CPLR article 78 petition seeking a direction to respondents to recalculate petitioner’s credit for time spent in jail, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner is not entitled to receive credit for almost four years of federal jail time against the sentence he is currently serving in this State. Petitioner would be entitled to such credit only if he could demonstrate that his federal incarceration was solely the result of detainers issued by this…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Peterson v. New York State Department of Correctional ServicesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
  2. Bentley v. DemskieAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Guido v. GoordNew York Court of Appeals · 2004

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