Court Opinion

ID: 6041756
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 13:53:59.640386+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:15.113933
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—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Byrne, J.), rendered September 17, 1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly revoked its promise of a more lenient disposition upon successful completion of a drug program and sentenced defendant to a prison term where defendant absconded from the assigned residential drug program after only two and one-half weeks, and remained at large for almost five months thereafter, notifying no one (People v Johnson, 254 AD2d 49). The court was not obligated to conduct a hearing, sua sponte, when defendant claimed for the first time at sentencing that he had been threatened by another participant in the program. Such a circumstance, even if true, would not excuse defendant’s conduct. Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Wallach and Buckley, JJ.