People ex rel. Joseph v. Superintendent of Woodbourne Correctional Facility

OPINION OF THE COURT

Roger J. Miner, J.

Relator, who absconded during a furlough from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, challenges the extension of the maximum date for the expiration of his sentence on the ground that "respondents made no effort to apprehend him during the period he was an absconder.”

It appears that relator entered a plea of guilty to the crime of criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree and thereafter was sentenced in the Supreme Court, Queens County, to a term of imprisonment having a maximum of three years and a minimum of one and one-half years.…