Opinion
05-21-2015
In the Matter of Levon ISAAC, Appellant, v. Tina M. STANFORD, as Chair of the Board of Parole, Respondent.
Levon Isaac, Hudson, appellant pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Laura Etlinger of counsel), for respondent.
Levon Isaac, Hudson, appellant pro se.Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Laura Etlinger of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Nichols, J.), entered July 8, 2014 in Columbia County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.
Petitioner is currently serving a sentence of 2 ½ to 5 years in prison upon his conviction of burglary in the third degree. He commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging a March 2013 decision of the Board of Parole denying his request for parole release. Respondent moved to dismiss the petition on the ground that, among others, the proceeding was moot given the Board's subsequent denial of petitioner's request to be released to parole supervision. Supreme Court granted the motion and this appeal by petitioner ensued.
We affirm. Petitioner received all of the relief to which he is entitled by the Board's reconsideration of his request for parole release that it again denied in October 2013 (see Matter of Hardwick v. New York State Dept. of Parole, 116 A.D.3d 1332, 983 N.Y.S.2d 921 [2014] ; Matter of Tafari v. Evans, 92 A.D.3d 1060, 937 N.Y.S.2d 902 [2012], lv. denied 19 N.Y.3d 802, 2012 WL 1505345 [2012] ). Accordingly, Supreme Court properly dismissed the proceeding as moot, and we find that the exception to the mootness doctrine is inapplicable to the circumstances presented here (see Matter of Ellison v. Evans, 100 A.D.3d 1159, 1160, 953 N.Y.S.2d 729 [2012] ; Matter of Gilsinger v. New York State Div. of Parole, 76 A.D.3d 1130, 907 N.Y.S.2d 702 [2010] ).
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.
LAHTINEN, J.P., GARRY, LYNCH and CLARK, JJ., concur.