People ex rel. Pressley v Warden, Rikers Is. Correctional Facility

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People ex rel. Pressley v Warden of Rikers Is. Correctional Facility 2007 NY Slip Op 07538 [44 AD3d 429] October 11, 2007 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Cecil Pressley, Appellant,
v
Warden of Rikers Island Correctional Facility, Respondent.

—[*1] Georgia J. Hinde, New York City, for appellant.

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, Bronx County, (Robert G. Seewald, J.), entered August 16, 2006, which dismissed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, unanimously dismissed as moot, without costs.

The appeal is moot in light of petitioner's release to parole supervision (People ex rel. McGann v Ross, 91 NY2d 865 [1997]; People ex rel. Rucco v Warden, Rikers Is. Correctional Facility, 15 AD3d 314 [2005]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Friedman, Sullivan and Nardelli, JJ.

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