People ex rel. Sinclair v. Warden, Rikers Island Correctional Center

*929OPINION OF THE COURT

Martin Marcus, J.

In this case, an Administrative Law Judge adjourned the petitioner’s parole revocation hearing for more than IV2 months because the petitioner’s attorney failed to appear on the day the hearing was scheduled to occur. In the absence of his attorney, the petitioner sought to waive his right to counsel at the hearing and to proceed in the attorney’s absence. He now brings a writ of habeas corpus claiming that this adjournment, which was ordered over the petitioner’s strenuous and repeated objections, violated his right to a timely parole revocation by…