People Ex Rel. Cassar Ex Rel. Medrano v. Margiotta

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70 for a writ of ha-beas corpus, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Cohen, J.), dated May 1, 2015, which, after a hearing, granted the petition and sustained the writ.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is denied, the writ is dismissed, and the petitioner is directed to surrender himself to the superintendent of the Suffolk County Correctional Facility.

On April 23, 2015, the petitioner was tried, in absentia, by a hearing officer of the Suffolk County Traffic &…