Case ID: ad2d_81/html/1041-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v Joseph S. Bigley, Respondent.
   — Appeal unanimously dismissed. Memorandum: Although defendant’s sentence to a one-year definite term as a nonviolent class C felony offender was illegal under section 70.00 of the Penal Law it was subsequently changed during resentencing proceedings to a term of probation for five years, a permitted sentence. The People’s contention that the one-year sentence is illegal is now moot and this appeal should be dismissed (see Sedita v Board of Educ., 43 NY2d 827; Matter of Mullins v State Bd. of Parole, 35 NY2d 992). (Appeal from order of Onondaga Supreme Court — vacate sentence.) Present — Dillon, P.J., Simons, Hancock, Jr., Doerr and Moule, JJ.