Hagan v. Coughlin

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Vogt, J.), entered July 13, 1983 in Ulster County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to compel respondents to grant petitioner good-time credit. 1i Petitioner was sentenced in 1966 to a term of life imprisonment for the crime of murder in the first degree. Pursuant to subdivision 6 of former section 1945 of the Penal Law, petitioner’s minimum period of imprisonment was automatically set at 40 years, which period was reducible by as much as one third in the form of good-time…