Opinion
2017–11049 Ind. No. 8444/15
11-27-2019
The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. WILANSHIA P. (Anonymous), Appellant.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Lynn W.L. Fahey of counsel), for appellant. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Caroline R. Donhauser, and Niki Bargueiras of counsel), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Lynn W.L. Fahey of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Caroline R. Donhauser, and Niki Bargueiras of counsel), for respondent.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P., SHERI S. ROMAN, SYLVIA O. HINDS–RADIX, HECTOR D. LASALLE, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Betty J. Williams, J., at plea; William Miller, J., at sentence), rendered March 7, 2017, adjudicating her a youthful offender, upon her plea of guilty to grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing her, inter alia, to a period of conditional discharge.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating so much of the sentence as imposed a period of conditional discharge; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
Pursuant to a negotiated disposition, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to grand larceny in the fourth degree, with the understanding that if she completed 20 days of community service, she would be adjudicated a youthful offender, and that the Supreme Court would issue an order of protection against her and in favor of the complainant. It is undisputed that the defendant completed the community service prior to being sentenced. At sentencing, however, in addition to the above-referenced terms, the court also imposed a period of conditional discharge, which was not part of the bargained-for disposition.
The defendant contends, and the People concede, that under the circumstances of this case, as a matter of essential fairness, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of the plea agreement (see People v. McConnell, 49 N.Y.2d 340, 349, 425 N.Y.S.2d 794, 402 N.E.2d 133 ; People v. Drexler, 163 A.D.3d 846, 847, 76 N.Y.S.3d 919 ). Accordingly, we modify the judgment by vacating the conditional discharge component of the sentence.
CHAMBERS, J.P., ROMAN, HINDS–RADIX and LASALLE, JJ., concur.