Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Scully
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 1, 1991No. 1556, Docket 89-2429PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is taken from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Mark A. Costan-tino, Judge. The question presented is whether a New York State prisoner who has served a substantial portion of an indeterminate sentence of ten to twenty years may be resentenced to a term of eight to twenty-four years upon his motion to correct the unlawful relationship (under New York law) between the maximum and minimum terms of his sentence. Under the circumstances here presented, we conclude that…
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