Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Kelly v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 7, 1977No. Appeal No. 2Published

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment unanimously affirmed. *703Memorandum: Relator, who is presently serving a 25 year to life sentence, instituted a habeas corpus proceeding claiming that he was improperly sentenced because the sentencing court was misinformed with respect to a Federal conviction contained in his probation report and which was subsequently reversed on appeal. Habeas corpus is not the appropriate proceeding to remedy any claimed error of a sentencing court particularly when relator, as here, is legally and properly held on an unrelated sentence (People ex rel. Ganci v Henderson, 51 AD2d 888). It is not…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Ganci v. HendersonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976

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