A parolee who absconded for 20 months and then was convicted of a new felony does not deserve a credit against his original sentence for the time he was on the run, a state appeals court has ruled.
“[N]othing in the governing statute (Executive Law §259-i)…compels us to apply the law so as to reward an already-delinquent parolee for committing a new felony,” Justice David Friedman (See Profile) wrote yesterday for a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, in Oriole v. Saunders, 5073.
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