People v Jones
2014 NY Slip Op 01558 [115 AD3d 490]
March 11, 2014
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 30, 2014


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Anthony Jones, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Kristina Schwarz of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Naomi C. Reed of counsel), for respondent.

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J.), rendered March 13, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his pleas of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of six months, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant was sentenced to a term of incarceration of longer than 60 days (see Penal Law § 60.35 [8]), he was required to seek relief from his mandatory surcharge payments by way of a CPL 420.10 (5) motion for resentencing. Defendant's claims that he was entitled to a financial hardship hearing pursuant to CPL 420.40, and that the hearing should have been held at the time of his sentencing, are not supported by the applicable statutes. Rather, any application for relief from his surcharges is to be entertained in postsentence proceedings (see People v Bradley, 249 AD2d 103 [1st Dept 1998], lv denied 92 NY2d 923 [1998]; People v Wheeler, 244 AD2d 277 [1st Dept 1997]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, DeGrasse, Manzanet-Daniels and Gische, JJ.