People ex rel. Brown v. Griffin

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Gilpatric, J.), entered April 7, 2014 in Ulster County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

In 2002, petitioner was sentenced to a minimum prison term of 22 years following his conviction of various crimes, including burglary in the first degree. The convictions were upheld upon direct appeal (People v Brown, 16 AD3d 430, 431 [2005], lv denied 4 NY3d 852 [2005]). He commenced this CPLR article 70 proceeding seeking a writ of habeas corpus alleging that any…