People v. Stroman

OPINION OF THE COURT

John M. Leventhal, J.

Issue Presented

The novel jurisdictional issue presented is whether the imposition of postrelease supervision (PRS) by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) should be nullified when this court never imposed PRS on defendant, but a court of concurrent jurisdiction ruled that DOCS was correct in doing so in response to defendant’s habeas corpus petition.1

Facts

In March of 1999, defendant Anthony Stroman entered a plea of guilty to burglary in the second degree and assault in the second degree as a second violent felony offender and…