District Court, S.D. New York January 28, 2015, No. 11 Civ. 3200(SAS) (Betances v. Fischer)

OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

Beginning in 1998, New York mandated that certain violent felonies be punished by a determinate prison sentence followed by a mandatory term of parole, known as post-release supervision (“PRS”).1 The governing statute did not require that the term of PRS be announced by the judge at sentencing.