Court Opinion

ID: 5889353
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 02:42:46.700062+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:17.531325
License: Public Domain

Order unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We note that Supreme Court erred in characterizing defendant’s CPL 440.20 motion as one to vacate judgment under CPL 440.10 and, accordingly, applied an incorrect standard in determining the motion. Defendant concedes on appeal, however, that the record before us is sufficient to resolve the motion using the appropriate standard. Defendant was properly sentenced as a second violent felony offender on the basis that he had a prior conviction in 1975 for robbery in the second degree (see, People v Morse, 62 NY2d 205). It was appropriate, therefore, to deny his motion to vacate the sentence. (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Monroe County, Kennedy, J.—CPL 440.20). Present—Dillon, P. J., Denman, Green, Pine and Balio, JJ.