◆ SpookStack

we : On December 21, -1944, at a Special Term of the." °: Supreme Court of the State of New York, held in Clinton County; Plattsburgh, New York, before Justice ANDREW W. RYAN, ROBERT C.:- BOOTH, Assistant Attorney General, was asked by the court if. pnder the Ingenito Decision, subject had completed service of & his prison time. Mr. BOOTH replied tha subject had, Justice RYAN stated 1t appeared to the Court tha the entire maximum sentence for which GALANTE was-committed hdd rn “ been served, and ordered his release from Clinton Prison. _ > 4t#Ts to be noted that there is & copy of a letter in the f13) iinton Prison by Assistant Attorney General ROBERT C, attorney of Plattsburgh, New York, to the Attorney General of New York State, in which he stated that he could see no basis for appealing the case as prison officials were then reviewing all cases under the Ingenito Decision to recompute time owed by inmates. Lo It is to be noted that the above data relating ‘to — - 7 subject's release was obtained from his Glinton Prison file ioe : -rand fromthe records of the New York State Supreme Lourt, Clinton County Clerk's Office, Plattsburgh, .Néw York, on February 19; 1958, an : . é Subject's file contains correspondence with the “ne Warden of Great Meadows Prison in 1938, wherein sukect ers requests that the Warden reconsider the imposition of three. - * : years additional sentence imposed on subject while at Great. Meadows in connection with the death of Inmate JOSEPH DEL “: GAIS, Number 11756, who died as. a result.of knife ‘wounds.’ “Subject apparently was not. directiy involved, and.also ‘suffered knife-wounds, “but would ‘not’ name his assailant; ‘an@.all, persons involved .weré sentenced to loss.of all good-time,: which in. : subject's case, amounted to three years.” After considerable. *": " correspondence, the Warden of Great Meadows Prison recommended " to the Warden of Clinton Prison that it was his belief that subject was not responsible and leniency might be afforded him. Subject's minimum had been increased from December 29, 1938, | to January 14, 1942, but he. was paroled -on May 1,°1939, a3... Sult of that action ;.:.0ee ews