People ex rel. Alcantara v Keyser

People ex rel. Alcantara v Keyser 2021 NY Slip Op 02034 Decided on April 1, 2021 Appellate Division, Third Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered: April 1, 2021
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[*1]The People of the State of New York ex rel. Quiry Alcantara, Appellant,

v

William Keyser, as Superintendent of Sullivan Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Calendar Date: March 5, 2021
Before: Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ.

Quiry Alcantara, Fallsburg, appellant pro se.

Letitia James, Attorney General, Albany (Frank Brady of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Schick, J.), entered July 22, 2020 in Sullivan County, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.

Petitioner is an inmate at Sullivan Correctional Facility (hereinafter SCF) serving a sentence of 25 years to life upon his conviction of murder in the second degree, and is eligible for parole in 2030 (People v Alcantara, 78 AD3d 721 [2010], lv denied 16 NY3d 827 [2011]). In April 2020, petitioner filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus with supplemental submissions seeking his immediate release from SCF, asserting that he has numerous underlying medical conditions that place him at increased risk if infected with the novel coronavirus responsible for causing COVID-19. Respondent moved to dismiss, submitting an affidavit detailing the protocols and policies then in place at SCF to address the spread of COVID-19. Supreme Court granted the motion and denied the application on the merits, based upon our decision in People ex rel. Carroll v Keyser (184 AD3d 189 [2020]). Petitioner appeals.

We have reviewed the individual facts unique to petitioner's circumstances, i.e., relative to his age and physical condition. Upon consideration, we find that petitioner has failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that his detention at SCF was illegal or unconstitutional (see CPLR 7002 [a]; 7010 [a]; People ex rel. Carroll v Keyser, 184 AD3d at 192-193; People ex rel. Ferro v Brann, 183 AD3d 758, 758 [2020]). The basis of this determination is set forth in People ex rel. Figueroa v Keyser (___ AD3d ___ [decided herewith]) relative to both petitioner's Eighth Amendment claim and his substantive due process claim, and we adopt that analysis here. Petitioner's remaining claims have been examined and none establishes the illegality of his incarceration or his entitlement to immediate release (see People ex rel. Brown v New York State Div. of Parole, 70 NY2d 391, 398 [1987]; People ex rel. Kaplan v Commissioner of Correction of City of N.Y., 60 NY2d 648, 649 [1983]). Accordingly, we find that Supreme Court properly denied the application.

Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs.