Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Sims v. Senkowski
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 4, 1996PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lewis, J.), entered June 15, 1995 in Clinton County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.
Upon being convicted of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, petitioner was sentenced as a persistent felony offender to a term of 10 years to life in prison. He commenced this habeas corpus proceeding challenging his sentence as illegal on the ground that he should not have been sentenced as a persistent felony offender. Inasmuch as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People ex rel. McGourty v. SenkowskiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
- People ex rel. Cotton v. SenkowskiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
3Cited by6 opinions
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- People ex rel. Johnson v. LacyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- People ex rel. Hannon v. StinsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
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