Legal Opinion
Paunetto v. Hammock
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 10, 1981No. 81 Civ. 387 (MEL)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LASKER, District Judge.
In 1976, Joseph Paunetto was convicted of criminal possession of a firearm in the second degree and sentenced to an indeterminate term of incarceration of from three and one-half to seven years. Paunetto applied for parole in August, 1980 and it was denied. The New York Parole Appeals Unit granted Paunetto a new initial parole appearance on the ground that the parole board had improperly considered a murder indictment which had been dismissed and the records sealed. On December 9, 1980, Paunetto appeared before a new panel of the parole board, which also denied his…
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