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DVDs SUBMITTED BY THE VICTIM’S FAMILY MEMBERS HAD BEEN SUBMITTED BEFORE IN CONNECTION WITH WHETHER PETITIONER SHOULD BE GRANTED PAROLE, BECAUSE THE DVDs DID NOT PRESENT NEW EVIDENCE, THE PAROLE BOARD SHOULD NOT HAVE RESCINDED ITS DECISION TO SET A RELEASE DATE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, over a two-justice dissent, annulled the parole board’s rescission of its decision setting a release date for petitioner. In 1979, when petitioner was 19, he stabbed and killed his 15-year-old friend. The board initially set a release date of August 2016. The victim’s family then submitted two DVDs of statements by family members. Apparently the videos had been submitted before but were never made part of the file. Upon viewing the videos, the board rescinded its decision setting the release date. The Third Department found that the DVDs were not new evidence and therefore the rescission of the release date was not authorized:

Any alleged failure on respondent’s part to consider these materials earlier — not due to a failure to communicate with victims or to offer them opportunities to provide statements, but solely as the apparent result of respondent’s own inefficient filing system — cannot rationally be found to convert materials that had been provided to it 9 and 15 years before into new information that was not previously available or known.

… [O]ther challenges to parole rescission determinations based upon victim impact statements have exclusively involved new factual information that had not previously been known to respondent because the victims either had not provided statements or had not been given opportunities to do so … . Our review of the case law has revealed no other case involving a parole rescission decision that, as here, is based upon additional input from victims or family members who had previously submitted impact statements to respondent — much less multiple submissions of a thorough and extensive nature over many years.

In rescinding petitioner’s parole, respondent did not make the required finding that there was substantial evidence of “significant information” that “was not [previously] known by [respondent]” … . Matter of Duffy v New York State Bd. of Parole, 2018 NY Slip Op 05002, Third Dept 7-5-18

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