Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Quentin Meadows, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1985-11-25
Citations: 114 A.D.2d 1044
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Quentin Meadows, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 1044–1044

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Quentin Meadows, Appellant.

Opinion:
— Appeal by defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Savarese, J.), imposed December 23, 1981, upon his plea of guilty to robbery in the second degree, the sentence being a term of imprisonment of 3 Vi to 7 years.
Sentence reversed, on the law, and case remitted to Criminal Term for further proceedings consistent herewith.
The sentencing minutes do not indicate compliance with CPL 400.21, i.e., a judicial finding of a prior predicate felony (see, People v Owens, 58 AD2d 898). The record does not disclose that defendant admitted the existence of a prior felony conviction, and the error was, therefore, not harmless (cf. People v Bouyea, 64 NY2d 1140).
Furthermore, the record of the plea proceedings discloses some confusion as to whether defendant was to be sentenced as a second or a first felony offender upon conviction of robbery in the second degree, a class C violent offense (see, Penal Law § 70.02 [1] [b]). While the court advised defendant that he faced a minimum of one half the maximum imposed, thus indicating that defendant would be sentenced as a second felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.06 [4] [b]), the court also advised defendant of the maximum range applicable to a first felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.02 [2] [a]; [3] [b]).
Accordingly, the question of whether a proper minimum sentence had been imposed should be reviewed upon resentencing. Mollen, P. J., Lazer, Mangano and Gibbons, JJ., concur.