People Ex Rel. Donohoe v. Montanye

Chief Judge Breitel.

Petitioner, a former State prisoner on parole, appeals from an Appellate Division order reversing a Wyoming County Court judgment granting habeas corpus relief and ordering his release on parole. At the County Court petitioner had successfully contended that he had been deprived of due process of law because under a Parole Board regulation he had been denied the right to counsel during a final parole revocation hearing.

The Appellate Division order should be reversed and the County Court judgment reinstated. A parolee, convicted of a new crime committed while on parole, is…