| People v Hernandez |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 08145 [55 AD3d 849] |
| October 21, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v AnthonyHernandez, Appellant. |
—[*1] Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Solomon Neubort, andSteven C. Hough of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Reichbach, J.),rendered October 11, 2006, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession ofa weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the sentence imposed; as somodified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, forresentencing that properly includes a period of postrelease supervision as part of the sentence.
The defendant's contention that the evidence was legally insufficient to support his conviction ofmurder in the second degree is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05 [2];People v Gray, 86 NY2d 10, 19 [1995]). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light mostfavorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621 [1983]), we find that itwas legally sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, resolutionof issues of credibility is primarily a matter to be determined by the factfinder, which saw and heard thewitnesses, and its determination should be accorded great deference on appeal (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633,644- 645 [2006]; People v Mateo, 2 NY3d 383, 410 [2004], cert denied 542 US946 [2004]). Upon the exercise of our factual review power (see CPL 470.15 [5]), we aresatisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633[2006]).
The defendant argues that the period of postrelease supervision added by the court clerk was [*2]invalid and should be stricken. The Supreme Court erred in failing toinclude the period of postrelease supervision in its pronouncement of the sentence. However, this errormay be remedied through resentencing (seePeople v Sparber, 10 NY3d 457 [2008]; People v Harrison, 51 AD3d 816 [2008], lv denied 11 NY3d737 [2008]). Therefore, the sentence imposed is vacated and we remit the matter to the SupremeCourt for resentencing, including the imposition of the appropriate period of postrelease supervision.Lifson, J.P., Ritter, Miller and Balkin, JJ., concur.