Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jose Lopez, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1990-02-26
Citations: 158 A.D.2d 718
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jose Lopez, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 158
Pages: 718–719

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jose Lopez, Appellant.

Opinion:
As the prosecution concedes, the sentencing court erred in adjudicating the defendant to be a second violent felony offender.
The predicate crime involved the defendant's prior plea of guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.
However, that crime constitutes a violent felony offense only when the defendant has been initially charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and pleads guilty to the attempted crime as a lesser included offense (see, Penal Law § 70.02 [1] [d]; People v Morse, 62 NY2d 205, 226). The defendant had been charged with the attempt to commit such crime rather than the completed offense. Therefore, the conviction did not constitute a violent felony offense.
The sentences must, therefore, be reversed and the matters remitted for resentencing on both indictments, at which time the People may file a second felony offender statement. Moflen, P. J., Kunzeman, Eiber and Sullivan, JJ., concur.