Opinion
2013-04-25
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Cornelius SCOTT, Defendant–Appellant.
Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Cheryl Williams 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 (Cheryl Williams 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 (Michael J. Obus, J.), rendered July 20, 2011, as amended July 25, 2011, resentencing defendant, as a second felony offender, to a term of 14 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] ).