An upstate judge has taken the state parole board and attorney general's office to task in a critical decision that orders a new parole hearing next week for a 62-year-old disbarred lawyer serving a sentence for grand larceny.
Supreme Court Justice Richard Mott (See Profile) of Columbia County suggested in a decision Thursday that the parole board's denial of Francis Zarro's release bid was irrational, that its failure to do an adequate risk analysis was "preposterous" and that the panel was corralled by a hostile attorney general's office.
