No. 20-7846October Term 2020Decided Feb 22, 2022Updated Feb 22, 2022
Ortiz v. Breslin
This case asks whether New York could keep Angel Ortiz in prison after he was otherwise eligible for supervised release because, due to housing restrictions for sex offenders and his indigence, he could not secure approved housing in the community.
Case status
Decided · February 22, 2022
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- Decision released Feb 22, 2022
- What it's about
This case asks whether New York could keep Angel Ortiz in prison after he was otherwise eligible for supervised release because, due to housing restrictions for sex offenders and his indigence, he could not secure approved housing in the community. It also raises whether the State could continue holding him once his full prison sentence had expired.
Question presented
Whether either the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause or the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibited the State from retaining petitioner in a state facility during the portion of his sentence when he was unable to satisfy the housing condition required by state law for his supervised release to the community.
- Case path
Court of Appeals of New York / Decision released Feb 22, 2022
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
Timing
Decided February 22, 2022
The Court released its decision on February 22, 2022 without hearing oral argument.
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Opinion added: Opinion
Feb 22, 2022 | Court records
Brief added: Petition
Apr 22, 2021 | Court records
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