Court Opinion

ID: 6196500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 20:20:34.180763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:56:09.167621
License: Public Domain

Richard C. Delin, J.
The defendant is charged with a felony under the Tax Law. He now moves to strike the District Attorney’s statement which alleges that he is a second felony offender. (See Penal Law, § 70.06; CPL 400.21.)
Section 70.06 (subd 1, par [a]) of the Penal Law provides that a second felony offender is "a person who stands convicted of a felony deñned in this chapter” (emphasis supplied). Possession of untaxed cigarettes as a felony is not defined in the Penal Law. Under the established rules of statutory construction and the self-evident language of the statute, the instant offense is not subject to the increased penalties of section 70.06.
*400Accordingly, the defendant’s motion is granted. It is, so ordered.