Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Domingo Mendoza, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-09-20
Citations: 207 A.D.2d 715
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Domingo Mendoza, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 207
Pages: 715–716

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Domingo Mendoza, Appellant.
[616 NYS2d 949]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Adlerberg, J.), rendered November 13, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously modified, on the law, the sentence vacated, and the matter remanded for resentencing, and otherwise affirmed.
As the People concede, defendant was improperly adjudicated a second felony offender since sentence on his prior conviction had not been imposed prior to his commission of the present felony (Penal Law § 70.06 [1] [b] [ii]). Accordingly, the sentence must be vacated and the case remanded for resentencing notwithstanding that defendant challenges the sentence for the first time on appeal (People v Rodriguez, 191 AD2d 287, lv denied 81 NY2d 1019; People v Mickle, 91 AD2d 920). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Carro, Nardelli, Williams and Tom, JJ.