People ex rel. Pettijohn v LaClair |
2010 NY Slip Op 08407 [78 AD3d 1395] |
November 18, 2010 |
Appellate Division, Third Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
The People of the State of New York ex rel. John Pettijohn, Appellant, v Darwin E. LaClair, as Superintendent of Franklin Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents. |
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Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Marlene O. Tuczinski of counsel), for
respondents.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Feldstein, J.), entered January 19, 2010 in Franklin County, which denied petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, without a hearing.
Petitioner was convicted in 1989 of the crimes of manslaughter in the first degree and robbery in
the second degree and was sentenced, respectively, to concurrent terms of 8
We affirm. "A challenge to the revocation of parole fails to state a cause of action when an administrative appeal from the determination is not timely perfected and, thus, the petitioner has failed to exhaust his or her administrative remedies" (Matter of Boddie v Alexander, 65 AD3d 1446, 1447 [2009] [citations omitted], appeal dismissed 13 NY3d 886 [2009]; see People ex rel. Griffith v New York State Div. of Parole, 68 AD3d 1390, 1391 [2009]). The record reveals that, at the time petitioner commenced this CPLR article 70 proceeding, he had retained counsel to pursue an administrative appeal and that process had begun, but the appeal had not yet been perfected. Consequently, petitioner has failed to fully exhaust his administrative remedies. Furthermore, his constitutional claim does not relieve him of this responsibility (see Matter of Boddie v Alexander, 65 AD3d at 1447), particularly since this claim would not entitle him to immediate release even if it had merit (see People ex rel. Greany v Travis, 269 AD2d 666, 667 [2000], lv denied 94 NY2d 765 [2000]). Therefore, Supreme Court properly denied petitioner's application.
Mercure, J.P., Rose, Kavanagh, Garry and Egan Jr., JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.