Legal Opinion
Betances v. Fischer
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 14, 2015No. 11-cv-3200 (SAS)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
Beginning in 1998, New York mandated that certain violent felonies be punished by a determinate prison sentence followed by a mandatory parole term known as post-release supervision (“PRS”).1 The governing statute did not require that the term of PRS be announced by the judge at sentencing. In thousands of cases where the judge did not impose a PRS term at sentencing, the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”) imposed PRS upon felons committed to its custody — either during their incarceration or as they…
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