People ex rel. Henson v. Miller

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Ledina, J.), entered December 5, 1996 in Sullivan County, which converted petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a *730proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, to a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 and dismissed the petition seeking review of a determination of the State Board of Parole denying petitioner’s request for release on parole.

Petitioner appeared before the State Board of Parole for the first time in 1996 and was denied parole based on the seriousness of his crimes (murder, attempted murder and robbery in the first…