People v Woods
2010 NY Slip Op 07207 [77 AD3d 690]
October 5, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 15, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
MichaelWoods, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Paul Skip Laisure of counsel), for appellant.

Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., District Attorney, Staten Island, N.Y. (Morrie I. Kleinbart and AnneGrady of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Rooney, J.),imposed February 3, 2009, which, upon his conviction of robbery in the first degree, upon a juryverdict, imposed a period of postrelease supervision of five years in addition to the determinate term ofimprisonment previously imposed on September 28, 2000.

Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.

After a defendant is released from prison, a legitimate expectation in the finality of the sentencearises (see People v Williams, 14 NY3d198, 217 [2010]), and the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution (seeUS Const 5th Amend) precludes a court from adding a period of postrelease supervision to thesentence (see People v Jordan, 15NY3d 727 [2010]; People v Grant,75 AD3d 558 [2010]). Here, since the defendant had not yet completed serving the 18-yearprison term to which he was sentenced in 2000, the 2009 resentencing did not violate the defendant'sdouble jeopardy or due process rights (seePeople v Jordan, 15 NY3d 727 [2010]; People v Hassell, 14 NY3d 925 [2010]; People v Williams, 14 NY3d 198[2010]; People v Sparber, 10 NY3d457 [2008]; People v Pruitt, 74AD3d 1366 [2010]; People vMendez, 73 AD3d 951 [2010]; People v Parisi, 72 AD3d 989 [2010]; People v Scalercio, 71 AD3d 1060[2010]; People v Prendergast, 71 AD3d1055 [2010]; People v Bowman,65 AD3d 636 [2009]; People vStewartson, 63 AD3d 966 [2009]).

The defendant's remaining contention is without merit. Dillon, J.P., Florio, Roman and Sgroi, JJ.,concur.


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