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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Patrick Lawson, Petitioner, v. J. Leland Casscles, as Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents.
   Application, pursuant to CPLR 7002 (subd. [b], par. 2), for writ of habeas corpus, denied for legal insufficiency. Petitioner’s discharge from the care and custody of the Drug Abuse Control Commission was authorized by statute (Mental Health Law, § 81.31). Accordingly, there was no unlawful interruption of his 1973 sentence (People v. Taylor, 30 N Y 2d 899). Petitioner’s other contentions as to the illegality of his present detention are likewise without merit. Herlihy, P. J., Greenblott, Sweeney, Kane and Main, JJ., concur.