Opinion
2014-02-6
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Adolphus COOPER, Defendant–Appellant.
Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elon Harpaz of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.
Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elon Harpaz of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J.), rendered May 18, 2012, resentencing defendant, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 22 years, with 5 years' postrelease supervision, unanimously affirmed.
The resentencing proceeding imposing a term of postrelease supervision was neither barred by double jeopardy nor otherwise unlawful ( see People v. Lingle, 16 N.Y.3d 621, 926 N.Y.S.2d 4, 949 N.E.2d 952 [2011] ). SWEENY, J.P., ANDRIAS, FREEDMAN, RICHTER, CLARK, JJ., concur.