People ex rel. Baron v New York State Dept. of Corr. Servs.
2012 NY Slip Op 06475 [98 AD3d 1307]
September 28, 2012
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
As corrected through Wednesday, October 24, 2012


People of the State of New York ex rel. Andrique Baron, Appellant,v New York State Department of Correctional Services, and Ekpe D. Ekpe, Superintendent,Watertown Correctional Facility, Respondents.

[*1]Kathleen P. Reardon, Rochester, for petitioner-appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Zainab A. Chaudhry of counsel), forrespondents-respondents.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Jefferson County (Hugh A. Gilbert, J.),entered May 26, 2011 in a habeas corpus proceeding. The judgment dismissed the petition.

It is hereby ordered that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.

Memorandum: Inasmuch as petitioner has been released to parole supervision, this appeal byhim from the judgment dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been renderedmoot (see People ex rel. Baron v NewYork State Dept. of Corrections, 94 AD3d 1410, 1410 [2012], lv denied 19NY3d 807 [2012]; see also People exrel. Graham v Fischer, 70 AD3d 1381, 1381-1382 [2010]; People ex rel. Mitchell v Unger, 63AD3d 1591, 1591 [2009]; Peopleex rel. Hampton v Dennison, 59 AD3d 951, 951 [2009], lv denied 12 NY3d 711[2009]), and the exception to the mootness doctrine does not apply herein (see Graham,70 AD3d at 1381-1382; Hampton, 59 AD3d at 951; see generally Matter of HearstCorp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714-715 [1980]). Contrary to petitioner's contention, People ex rel. Phillips v LaClair (84AD3d 1606, 1606 [2011]) does not compel a different result. Although the ThirdDepartment concluded therein that the petitioner's appeal was moot because the petitioner was"no longer incarcerated or subject to the jurisdiction of the Board of Parole" (id.), theCourt subsequently made clear that a petitioner on parole supervision may not maintain a habeascorpus claim (see People ex rel.Speights v McKoy, 88 AD3d 1039, 1040 [2011]; People ex rel. Howard v Yelich, 87 AD3d 772, 773 [2011]).Petitioner's reliance on Speights and Howard is misplaced. Unlike this case,Speights and Howard called into question the calculation of the maximumexpiration date of the petitioner's sentence and, thus, the Court decided to convert those habeascorpus proceedings to proceedings pursuant to CPLR article 78 (see Speights, 88 AD3dat 1040; Howard, 87 AD3d at 773). Here, by contrast, the calculation of the maximumexpiration date of petitioner's sentence is not affected by the issue presented.Present—Centra, J.P., Fahey, Peradotto, Carni and Sconiers, JJ.


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