People v Curtis
2014 NY Slip Op 05199 [119 AD3d 705]
July 9, 2014
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, August 27, 2014


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1 The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Sammie Curtis, Appellant.

Salvatore C. Adamo, New York, N.Y., for appellant.

William V. Grady, District Attorney, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Joan H. McCarthy ofcounsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the County Court, Dutchess County(Greller, J.), imposed August 17, 2011, upon his conviction of assault in the first degree,upon his plea of guilty, the resentence being a period of postrelease supervision inaddition to the determinate term of imprisonment previously imposed by the same court(Hayes, J.) on April 13, 2004.

Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.

Since the defendant had not yet completed serving his originally imposed sentence ofimprisonment when he was resentenced, his resentencing to a term that included astatutorily required period of postrelease supervision did not subject him to doublejeopardy or violate his right to due process of law (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d 621, 630-633 [2011]; People v Hernandez, 110AD3d 918, 919 [2013]; People v Brown, 110 AD3d 730, 731 [2013]).

Moreover, as the defendant was informed at the plea proceeding that he faced afive-year period of postrelease supervision, acknowledged as much, and thereafterentered a plea of guilty, the defendant's plea was not rendered involuntary or unknowingdue to any failure on the part of the County Court to advise him that a period ofpostrelease supervision would constitute part of his sentence (see People v Blunt, 93 AD3d675, 676 [2012]; cf. Peoplev Boyd, 12 NY3d 390 [2009]; People v Catu, 4 NY3d 242 [2005]).

Additionally, the resentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte,90 AD2d 80 [1982]).

The defendant's right to appeal from his resentence is limited to the correction oferrors at the resentencing proceeding (see CPL 470.15 [1]; People vLingle, 16 NY3d at 635). Accordingly, the defendant's contentions which relate toalleged errors in the plea proceeding are not properly before this Court. Moreover, thosecontentions were, or could have been, raised on the defendant's prior appeal from thejudgment of conviction rendered April 13, 2004 (see People v Curtis, 33 AD3d 721 [2006]). Rivera, J.P.,Sgroi, Hinds-Radix and Maltese, JJ., concur.


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