People ex rel. Witherspoon v Morrissey

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People ex rel. Witherspoon v Morrissey 2010 NY Slip Op 01240 [70 AD3d 1438] February 11, 2010 Appellate Division, Fourth Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Billy Witherspoon, Appellant,
v
James Morrissey, Superintendent, Butler Correctional Facility, Respondent.

—[*1] Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin LLP, Rochester (Brian Shiffrin of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Marlene O. Tuczinski of counsel), for respondent-respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Wayne County (Dennis M. Kehoe, A.J.), entered March 25, 2008. The judgment denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Scudder, P.J., Smith, Peradotto, Green and Gorski, JJ.

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