Burress v. Evans

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Melkonian, J.), entered September 20, 2012 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Board of Parole denying petitioner’s request for parole release.

In 1979, petitioner was convicted of a number of crimes, the most serious of which was murder in the second degree, after he drove an associate to a hotel to commit a robbery and a police officer was fatally shot during the commission of the crime. Petitioner thereafter was sentenced to an aggregate term of…