People v DeJesus |
2011 NY Slip Op 03873 [84 AD3d 832] |
May 3, 2011 |
Appellate Division, Second Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Carmelo DeJesus, Appellant. |
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Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Karen Wigle-Weiss, and Danielle S. Fenn of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), imposed September 17, 2009, which, upon his conviction of assault in the first degree, aggravated criminal contempt, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, imposed a period of postrelease supervision in addition to the concurrent determinate terms of imprisonment previously imposed on July 1, 2003.
Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.
The defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, aggravated
criminal contempt, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. On July 1, 2003, he
was sentenced to a determinate term of imprisonment of 10 years on the conviction of assault in
the first degree, an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 2
Since the defendant had not yet completed his originally-imposed sentence of imprisonment when he was resentenced, the resentencing to a term including the statutorily required period of postrelease supervision did not subject him to double jeopardy or violate his right to due process of law (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d 621 [2011]).
A court to which a matter has been remitted for resentencing solely for the purpose of imposing a required term of postrelease supervision does not have the authority to consider whether to reduce the defendant's sentence as a whole (id.). Skelos, J.P., Leventhal, Sgroi and Miller, JJ., concur.