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People v. Walker

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.
Apr 30, 2015
127 A.D.3d 1506 (N.Y. App. Div. 2015)

Opinion

106266.

04-30-2015

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. William WALKER, Appellant.

Theodore J. Stein, Woodstock, for appellant. D. Holley Carnright, District Attorney, Kingston (Danielle Scarduzio of counsel), for respondent.


Theodore J. Stein, Woodstock, for appellant.

D. Holley Carnright, District Attorney, Kingston (Danielle Scarduzio of counsel), for respondent.

Before: PETERS, P.J., LAHTINEN, ROSE and DEVINE, JJ.

Opinion ROSE, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Williams, J.), rendered August 22, 2013, which resentenced defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of possessing a sexual performance by a child.

Defendant was convicted upon his guilty plea of possessing a sexual performance by a child and, at the time of the plea, County Court (Bruhn, J.) admonished defendant that it would not be bound by the sentencing agreement if he “commit[ted] any new crimes” or was “arrested again for any reason.” He allegedly violated the admonishments and received an enhanced sentence of 1 ? to 4 years in prison. Upon appeal, we vacated the sentence and remitted the matter so that County Court could conduct an inquiry into the scope of the admonishments “and whether defendant was entitled to a hearing to establish any violation of” them (101 A.D.3d 1350, 1351, 956 N.Y.S.2d 306 [2012] ). County Court (Williams, J.) conducted a hearing and determined that defendant had indeed violated the admonishments. As such, the court resentenced defendant to a prison term of 1 ? to 4 years. Defendant now appeals.

We affirm. Inasmuch as defendant has served the enhanced sentence in full, his contention that County Court improperly imposed it is academic (see People v. Nicholson, 31 A.D.3d 468, 469, 817 N.Y.S.2d 638 [2006], lv. denied 7 N.Y.3d 850, 823 N.Y.S.2d 780, 857 N.E.2d 75 [2006] ). In any event, our review of the hearing transcript reveals that County Court complied with the mandates set out in People v. Outley, 80 N.Y.2d 702, 713, 594 N.Y.S.2d 683, 610 N.E.2d 356 [1993], and we find no basis to disturb the determination that defendant violated the admonishments. Defendant further asserts that the admonishments were not a proper part of his guilty plea. That argument, to the extent that it may properly be advanced upon this appeal from a resentence (cf. CPL 450.30 ), is unpreserved because defendant failed to advance it before County Court (see People v. Radek, 202 A.D.2d 847, 848–849, 609 N.Y.S.2d 366 [1994], lv. denied 83 N.Y.2d 914, 614 N.Y.S.2d 396, 637 N.E.2d 287 [1994] ).

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

PETERS, P.J., LAHTINEN and DEVINE, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Walker

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.
Apr 30, 2015
127 A.D.3d 1506 (N.Y. App. Div. 2015)
Case details for

People v. Walker

Case Details

Full title:The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. William WALKER…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.

Date published: Apr 30, 2015

Citations

127 A.D.3d 1506 (N.Y. App. Div. 2015)
127 A.D.3d 1506
2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 3580

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