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People v. Maldonado

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Mar 9, 2021
192 A.D.3d 462 (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)

Opinion

13294-13294A Ind. No. 2289/14 SCI No. 3189/14 Case No. 2018-2316

03-09-2021

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard MALDONADO, Defendant-Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Katheryne M. Martone of counsel), for appellant. Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Diana J. Lewis of counsel), for respondent.


Janet E. Sabel, The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Katheryne M. Martone of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Diana J. Lewis of counsel), for respondent.

Gische, J.P., Singh, Moulton, Gonza´lez, JJ.

Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alvin M. Yearwood, J. at pleas; Raymond Bruce, J. at sentencing), rendered October 5, 2017, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of two years with two years’ postrelease supervision, unanimously modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the conviction under Indictment No. 2289/14 and dismissing that indictment, and otherwise affirmed.

As the People concede, defendant's guilty plea to a count that had been dismissed, was jurisdictionally defective ( see CPL 220.10 ). The only remaining viable count of the indictment is a misdemeanor, which we dismiss in the interest of justice in light of the remaining felony conviction.

We perceive no basis for reducing the remaining sentence.


Summaries of

People v. Maldonado

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Mar 9, 2021
192 A.D.3d 462 (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)
Case details for

People v. Maldonado

Case Details

Full title:The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Maldonado…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Date published: Mar 9, 2021

Citations

192 A.D.3d 462 (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)
2021 N.Y. Slip Op. 1365
139 N.Y.S.3d 815

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