People ex rel. Cass v. Khahaifa

89 A.D.3d 1517, 932 N.Y.2d 748

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: November 18, 2011
• Status: Published

Opinion

Memorandum:

Respondent appeals from an order granting the petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We note at the outset that the order was subsumed in the final judgment, from which no appeal was taken. Nevertheless, we exercise our discretion to treat the notice of appeal as valid and deem the appeal as taken from the judgment (see Hughes v Nussbaumer, Clarke & Velzy, 140 AD2d 988 [1988]; see also CPLR 5520 [c]), and we reverse. Petitioner was not entitled to habeas corpus relief because he violated a condition of postrelease supervision, which was properly imposed before petitioner completed the originally imposed sentence of imprisonment (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d 621, 629-633 [2011]). Present — Fahey, J.E, Garni, Sconiers, Gorski and Martoche, JJ.