People ex rel. Cisson v. Artus

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Muller, J.), entered December 14, 2009 in Clinton County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

In 2008, petitioner was convicted of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. He was sentenced to an aggregate prison term of eight years, to be followed by three years of postrelease supervision. Petitioner subsequently made a number of motions to vacate the judgment…