ALBANY – A ruling by the state’s highest court may have resolved the last major questions over a 1998 law that eliminated parole in favor of mandatory post-release supervision for all violent felons following completion of their prison terms.
The Court of Appeals last week in People v. Williams, 11, and related cases held that double jeopardy concerns prohibit an inmate from being returned to court to be sentenced to a term of post-release supervision (PRS) that was not properly imposed by courts after he has served his prison term and the time to appeal his sentence has expired. (The decision was published on Feb. 24, page 39 of the print edition of the Law Journal.)
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