A state prison inmate who has been waiting more than a year for the Appellate Division, First Department, to decide whether the parole board rightly rescinded her release has been granted parole again in a decision that may make her Article 78 petition irrelevant.
The board set a tentative release date of April 29 for Aurelina Leonor, who has served nearly 22 years of an 18-year-to-life sentence for her role in the 1993 abduction of Queens “Tuxedo King” Harvey Weinstein, then chief executive officer of Lord West Formal Wear. Unless the parole board rescinds its decision again, as it did after granting her release in 2011, a case pending with the First Department since April 2013 is apparently moot.
