Portacio v. New York State Division of Parole

Petitioner was sentenced in October 2000 to a prison term of five years and five years of postrelease supervision for his conviction upon a plea of guilty to sodomy and criminal possession of a weapon. He was thereafter paroled in November 2005. However, during a December 2007 parole revocation hearing, petitioner pleaded guilty to two curfew violations in exchange for the recommendation of a 14-month hold by the Administrative Law Judge and his parole was revoked. The Board of Parole modified the recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge *1108and ordered petitioner held until his maximum,…