Sweeper v. State

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lewis, J.), entered January 5, 1996 in Clinton County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying petitioner’s application for release on parole.

Petitioner was convicted in 1984 of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to a prison term of 72/s to 23 years. His applications for release on parole, filed in 1990, 1992 and 1994, were denied. Petitioner challenges respondent’s most recent determination denying his application for release…