People ex rel. Rivas v. Walsh

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (LaBuda, J.), entered July 27, 2006 in Sullivan County, which, inter alia, dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

Petitioner was convicted in 1994 of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and was sentenced to eight years to life in prison. He was convicted in 1995 of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, and was sentenced to two concurrent prison terms of 25 years to *1328life, to…