Opinion
6183 5505/12
04-03-2018
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Keith COLON, Defendant–Appellant.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Adrienne M. Gantt of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (R. Jeannie Campbell–Urban of counsel), for respondent.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Adrienne M. Gantt of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (R. Jeannie Campbell–Urban of counsel), for respondent.
Friedman, J.P., Sweeny, Gesmer, Kern, Singh, JJ.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J. at plea; Eduardo Padró, J. at sentencing), rendered December 16, 2015, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of two years followed by two years of post-release supervision, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant received a sentence in accordance with the court's ultimate sentence promise. The original promise was a term of 1½ years in the event that defendant was rejected by the judicial diversion program. Defendant was accepted by the program, and the new promise was that defendant could earn a misdemeanor, nonincarceratory disposition if he completed drug treatment and complied with other conditions, but would receive two years if he failed to do so. After he violated the terms of this agreement and absconded from the drug program, the court, which was not bound by the original promise, properly sentenced him in accordance with the new agreement.
We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence, including the two-year term of post-release supervision.