People v Weichow
2012 NY Slip Op 04785 [96 AD3d 883]
June 13, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, August 1, 2012


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

[*1]Leon H. Tracy, Jericho, N.Y., for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Tammy J. Smiley of counsel; MatthewC. Frankel on the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Peck, J.),rendered May 5, 2010, convicting her of robbery in the second degree (three counts), upon herplea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the plea is vacated, and the matter isremitted to the Supreme Court, Nassau County, for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

As the People correctly concede, the Supreme Court's failure to advise the defendant at thetime of the plea that her sentence would include a period of postrelease supervision prevented herplea from being knowing, voluntary, and intelligent (see People v Cornell, 16 NY3d 801, 802 [2011]; People v Hill, 9 NY3d 189, 191[2007], cert denied 553 US 1048 [2008]; People v Louree, 8 NY3d 541, 545-546 [2007]; People v Catu, 4 NY3d 242, 245[2005]). Accordingly, the judgment must be reversed, the plea vacated, and the matter remitted tothe Supreme Court, Nassau County, for further proceedings (see People v Gibbs, 61 AD3d 699 [2009]; People v Borrego, 59 AD3d 456[2009]; People v Kirksey, 56 AD3d573 [2008]; People vThompson, 47 AD3d 648 [2008]). Angiolillo, J.P., Florio, Belen and Chambers, JJ.,concur.


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