| Matter of Grey v Fischer |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 05068 [63 AD3d 1431] |
| June 18, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Rodolfo Grey, Respondent, v Brian Fischer, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al., Appellants. |
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Stein, J. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Cahill, J.), entered July 3, 2008 in Albany County, which granted petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of the Department of Correctional Services calculating petitioner's sentences as running consecutively.
In 1987, petitioner was sentenced to 1½ to 4½ years in prison upon his conviction of attempted robbery in the first degree. Petitioner was paroled, committed additional crimes and, in 1989, was sentenced for those crimes as a second violent felony offender to various prison terms, resulting in an aggregate prison term of 15 to 30 years. The 1989 sentencing minutes were silent as to the manner in which such sentences were to run relative to the undischarged portion of petitioner's 1987 sentence.[FN1]
The Department of Correctional Services (hereinafter DOCS), relying upon Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a), calculated petitioner's sentences as running consecutively, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding to annul that determination. Supreme Court granted [*2]petitioner's application and annulled DOCS's consecutive sentencing determination, prompting this appeal.[FN2]
Subsequent to Supreme Court's determination, the Court of Appeals ruled that where, as here, the sentencing court is required to impose a consecutive sentence (see Penal Law § 70.25 [2-a]), "it is deemed to have imposed the consecutive sentence the law requires" (People ex rel. Gill v Greene, 12 NY3d 1, 4 [2009])—even in the absence of an express judicial directive to that effect (see id. at 6). Inasmuch as there is no dispute that petitioner was subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a), we perceive no error in DOCS's computation of his sentence (see People ex rel. Taylor v Brown, 62 AD3d 1063, 1064 [2009]; Matter of McMoore v Fischer, 61 AD3d 1187, 1188 [2009]). Accordingly, Supreme Court's judgment is reversed and the petition is dismissed.
Peters, J.P., Rose, Lahtinen and McCarthy, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs, and petition dismissed.