People ex rel. Reyes v. State of New York Department of Correctional Services

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Feldstein, J.), entered December 4, 2000 in St. Lawrence County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

In 1999, petitioner was convicted on his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree and was sentenced to a prison term of 4V2 years to life. He subsequently commenced this proceeding for a writ of habeas corpus contending, inter alia, that his guilty plea should not have been accepted because he was…