Court Opinion

ID: 6069447
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 16:55:32.690855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:50.621382
License: Public Domain

Case held, decision reserved, counsel’s motion to be relieved of assignment granted and new counsel to be assigned. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted, upon a plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [2]) and was sentenced, as a violent felony offender, to an indeterminate term of incarceration of 5 to 10 *994years and restitution in the amount of $2,636. Defendant’s assigned appellate counsel has moved to be relieved of the assignment pursuant to People v Crawford (71 AD2d 38) and has submitted a brief in which he concludes that there are no non-frivolous issues meriting this Court’s consideration. The record establishes that, in exchange for his plea, defendant was promised an indeterminate sentence of 3 to 6 years, but that, at sentencing, County Court imposed an enhanced sentence based upon defendant’s failure to cooperate with probation department officers preparing the pre-sentence investigation report. Those facts raise the issue whether the court properly enhanced defendant’s sentence (see, People v Parker, 271 AD2d 63). Therefore, we relieve counsel of his assignment and assign new counsel to brief that issue, as well as any others that counsel’s review of the record may disclose. (Appeal from Judgment of Monroe County Court, Bristol, J. — Robbery, 1st Degree.) Present — Pigott, Jr., P. J., Green, Kehoe, Burns and Lawton, JJ.