Court Opinion

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14 N.Y.3d 876 (2010)
929 N.E.2d 396
903 N.Y.S.2d 333
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent,
v.
DEREK BACKUS, Appellant.
No. 76.
Court of Appeals of New York.
Argued March 25, 2010.
Decided May 11, 2010.
*877 DJ & JA Cirando, Syracuse (John A. Cirando, Robert A. Durr, Bradley E. Keem and Elizabeth deV. Moeller of counsel), for appellant.
William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, Syracuse (James P. Maxwell and Victoria M. White of counsel), for respondent.
Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH, PIGOTT and JONES concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT
MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division, insofar as appealed from, should be reversed, and so much of the order as authorized County Court to entertain a motion by the People to vacate the plea and set aside the conviction should be vacated.
The People have not appealed from so much of the order as vacated the sentence imposed by County Court. We thus have no power to grant the People affirmative relief, and we therefore do not consider the People's argument that the consecutive terms imposed by County Court for vehicular assault and for driving while intoxicated were permissible (People v Carpenito, 80 NY2d 65, 68 [1992]). Defendant's sentence having been vacated, County Court is required to resentence defendant in accordance with the law, and lacks power to vacate the conviction or the plea (Matter of Kisloff v Covington, 73 NY2d 445, 451-452 [1989]; Matter of Campbell v Pesce, 60 NY2d 165, 169 [1983]).
Order, insofar as appealed from, reversed and that part of the Appellate Division order that allowed for a motion by the People to vacate the plea and set aside the conviction vacated in a memorandum.