Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Alex McFadden, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-06-06
Citations: 205 A.D.2d 560
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Alex McFadden, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 205
Pages: 560–560

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Alex McFadden, Appellant.
[614 NYS2d 266]

Opinion:
Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), imposed March 15, 1991, upon his conviction of murder in the second degree as a juvenile offender, upon his plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate term of imprisonment of seven years to life and a $2 crime victim assistance fee.
Ordered, that the sentence is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof directing the payment of the crime victim assistance fee.
Penal Law § 60.00 (2) provides that the "sole provision" of article 60 "that shall apply in the case of an offense committed by a juvenile offender is section 60.10 and no other provisions of this article shall be deemed or construed to apply in any such case." Where statutory language is clear and unambiguous, a court is constrained to give effect to the plain meaning of the words used (see, People v Floyd J., 61 NY2d 895, 896). In this case the language of the statute clearly precludes the imposition of a crime victim assistance fee pursuant to Penal Law § 60.35 (1) where the defendant was sentenced as a juvenile offender. Mangano, P. J., Bracken, Lawrence, Altman and Friedmann, JJ., concur.