Cachoian v. New York State Department of Corrections

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Hansel McGee, J.), entered March 22, 1996, which granted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and directed respondents to credit the time served by petitioner in Federal prison toward his State sentence, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the petition dismissed, without costs.

Petitioner received a 12-year sentence in Federal court in 1982 on drug-related charges. In 1987, while on parole, he was *119arrested and indicted on various State assault and weapons charges; this arrest violated his Federal parole and he was thereafter returned to Federal custody.…