Lomonaco v. New York State Board of Parole

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered July 9, 2002 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent Board of Parole denying petitioner’s request for parole release.

*830Petitioner is currently serving a prison sentence of 8 to 16 years following his 1989 conviction of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. His conviction arose out of a street corner altercation with a drug dealer which ended when petitioner fatally stabbed the other man. In August 2001, petitioner…