Khatib v. New York State Board of Parole

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Mercure, J.), entered September 26, 2013 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying his request for parole release.

In 2003, petitioner was convicted following a jury trial of four counts of conspiracy in the second degree and criminal possession of a firearm in the third degree after he hired a “hitman” to murder his former paramour and three of her family members. He was sentenced as a second felony offender to concurrent prison terms…