Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John Kelly, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2012-06-29
Citations: 96 A.D.3d 1688
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John Kelly, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 96
Pages: 1688–1689

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v John Kelly, Appellant.
[946 NYS2d 914]

Opinion:
Appeal from a resentence of the Onondaga County Court (Anthony E Aloi, J.), rendered October 1, 2009. Defendant was resentenced upon his conviction of assault in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the resentence so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law, the original sentence is reinstated and the matter is remitted to Onondaga County Court for proceedings pursuant to CPL 470.45.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a resentence pursuant to which, following a hearing, County Court sentenced him to a five-year period of postrelease supervision. As the People correctly concede, the court erred in imposing a period of post-release supervision after defendant had been conditionally released from the previously imposed determinate sentence of incarceration. Inasmuch as he had been released from custody, defendant had "a legitimate expectation that the sentence, although illegal under the Penal Law, [was] final and the Double Jeopardy Clause prevents a court from modifying the sentence to include a period of postrelease supervision" (People v Williams, 14 NY3d 198, 219-220 [2010], cert denied 562 US —, 131 S Ct 125 [2010]; see People v Viehdeffer, 75 AD3d 1112, 1113 [2010]). Present — Scudder, P.J., Carni, Lindley, Sconiers and Martoche, JJ.