People ex rel. Cato v. Tedford

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McKeighan, J.), entered May *98925, 2012 in Washington County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

In 2001, petitioner was sentenced to an aggregate prison term of 8V2 to 17 years following his conviction after a jury trial of multiple counts of the crimes of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. In…