Richard robles prison sentence in nyc

VICTOR E. BIANCHINI, United States Magistrate Judge.I. Introduction

Pro se petitionerRichard Robles(“Robles”), by this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § , challenges the constitutionality of decisions of the New York State Division of Parole(“the Parole Board”) repeatedly denying him parole.(DocketNo. 1).The parties have consented to disposition of this matter by a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § (c)(1).1

Robles was first committed to the New York State Department of Corrections on January 12, , following a jury trial in New York County Supreme Court for two counts of first degree initially was sentenced to a term of natural life in r, in the s, the New York State Legislature amended the law to make prisoners such as Robles eligible for parole after serving a minimum of twenty (20) years of his sentence.

According the papers submitted to this Court, Robles had his first parole hearing in November Since that time, Robles has appeared before the Parole Board every two years and, on each of these twelve (12) occasions, the Board has denied parole and ordered Robles held for another twenty-four months, the maximum time statutorily permitted between parole hearings.

Robles challenges a number of the Parole Board's decisions denying dent has asserted the defense of non-exhaustion with regard to all of the denials except the denial, as to which respondent concedes that Robles has exhausted his administrative and state-court , the key parole denial before the Court in the instant habeas petition is that rendered on May 7, The Parole Board denied release in a perfunctory decision with language remarkably similar to all of its previous denials, and ordered that Robles be held for another 24 months (the maximum hold time possible) before he would again be eligible for another parole ented by counsel, Robles pursued an unsuccessful administrative appeal of the parole denial was ' attorney then sought judicial

Richard Robles has finally accepted the fact that he will likely die behind bars — and that few would want anything less for him.

The bald, gnomish prisoner is barely recognizable these days as the man responsible for one of the most heinous crimes in New York City. A half-century ago, two pretty young roommates were slaughtered in their apartment near Central Park — one of them raped — and the bloodbath was discovered by a third woman who lived there.

The “Career Girl murders” was a media obsession that summer, as was the legal drama that followed. A wrong man was arrested, confessed and got shipped off to prison before Robles finally met his fate.

Now 73, Robles was again denied parole in May and is unlikely to ever breathe free air again.

“When I was in the streets, I never thought I’d be a killer,” Robles told The Post during a recent sit-down interview at the Otisville Correctional Facility, about 75 miles from the scene of his carnage. “There is a realistic and strong probability I will be here until I die.”

The morning of Aug. 28, was a typical one for roommates Janice Wylie, 21, and Emily Hoffert, 23 &#; Wylie a researcher at Newsweek and Hoffert a shy schoolteacher.

Wylie was in the shower as she got ready for work inside the East 88th Street pad between Madison and Park Avenues.

A third roommate, Time-Life employee Patricia Tolles, was not home at the time.

Robles claims he believed the place was empty when he broke in, and that he merely planned to steal enough money to fuel his heroin addiction.

What happened next would shock the city and the country.

Wylie, an aspiring actress and the daughter of Max Wylie, a renowned radio advertising executive, novelist and playwright who created the television show “The Flying Nun,” ran right into Robles &#; and he pounced.

The fiend raped her in an attack that was interrupted by the bespectacled Hoffert, a graduate of Smith C

murders in New York City

The "Career Girls Murders" was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, George Whitmore Jr. was charged with this and other crimes, but he was later cleared.

The actions of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) led Whitmore to be improperly accused of this and other crimes, including the murder of Minnie Edmonds and the attempted rape and assault of Elba Borrero. Whitmore was wrongfully incarcerated for 1, days—from his arrest on April 24, , until his release on bond on July 13, , and from the revocation of his bond on February 28, , until his exoneration on April 10, Whitmore's treatment by the authorities was cited as an example that led the United States Supreme Court to issue the guidelines known as the Miranda rights, with the Court calling Whitmore's case "the most conspicuous example" of police coercion in the country. The Court issued its ruling, establishing a set of protections for suspects—including the right to remain silent—in Miranda v. Arizona.

Crimes

On the evening of August 28, , year-old Patricia Tolles, who worked at the book division at Time-Life, returned from work to her apartment on the third floor of 57 East 88th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There, Tolles found the apartment ransacked and a bloody knife in the bathroom. Panicked, she ran to the lobby and called Max Wylie, the father of her roommate, who lived nearby. Wylie came to investigate, and in one of the bedrooms he found the bodies of his daughter, Janice, aged 21, and her roommate, Emil