ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF DEFENDANT’S APPLICATION FOR PAROLE WAS TAINTED BY INACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OFFENSES COMMITTED BY DEFENDANT (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined that the administrative appeal of the denial of parole was tainted by inaccurate information about the offenses committed by defendant:

… [T]he claim asserted by petitioner is preserved as it could not have been raised upon administrative appeal. Specifically, petitioner challenges the fact that the administrative appeals unit relied upon inaccurate information regarding his criminal history in affirming the Board’s denial of parole. A review of the statement by the appeals unit inaccurately reported that petitioner murdered six, as opposed to four, people. “Because of the likelihood that such error may have affected” the decision to affirm the Board’s denial of petitioner’s request for parole release, proper administrative review is required … . Matter of Torres v Stanford, 2019 NY Slip Op 05043, Third Dept 6-20-19