Opinion
02-15-2017
The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Raymond MINAYA, appellant.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY, for appellant. Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel; Gregory Musso on the brief), for respondent.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY, for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel; Gregory Musso on the brief), for respondent.
Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Murphy, J.), both rendered April 6, 2015, convicting him of robbery in the third degree under Indictment No. 8015/13, and attempted murder in the second degree under Indictment No. 8397/13, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgments are modified, on the law, by vacating the sentences imposed; as so modified, the judgments are affirmed, and the matters are remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.
The defendant's general waiver of his right to appeal was invalid. In any event, the defendant's contention that the Supreme Court failed to consider whether to afford him youthful offender treatment is not barred by a general waiver of the right to appeal (see People v. Clarke, 144 A.D.3d 937, 40 N.Y.S.3d 790 ; People v. Stevens, 127 A.D.3d 791, 791, 4 N.Y.S.3d 546 ).
Compliance with CPL 720.20(1), providing that the sentencing court "must" determine whether an eligible defendant is to be treated as a youthful offender, "cannot be dispensed with, even where defendant has failed to ask to be treated as a youthful offender, or has purported to waive his or her right to make such a request" (People v. Rudolph, 21 N.Y.3d 497, 499, 974 N.Y.S.2d 885, 997 N.E.2d 457 ). Here, as the People correctly concede, the record does not demonstrate that the Supreme Court considered whether the defendant should be afforded youthful offender status. Accordingly, the defendant's sentences must be vacated and the matters remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for resentencing after a determination as to whether the defendant should be afforded youthful offender treatment (see People v. Henry, 143 A.D.3d 1001, 39 N.Y.S.3d 802 ; People v. Youmans, 140 A.D.3d 1097, 33 N.Y.S.3d 744 ; People v. Worrell, 134 A.D.3d 1137, 1138, 21 N.Y.S.3d 638 ; People v. Ojomo, 126 A.D.3d 1011, 3 N.Y.S.3d 621 ).
LEVENTHAL, J.P., ROMAN, SGROI and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.