AMICUS AI
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Advocates
Judges
Are you a practicing lawyer?
Enhance your digital presence and reach by creating a Casemine profile.
Upload pleading to use the new AI search
Cites
Cited by
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Advocates
Judges

In the Matter of HARRY TUCKER, Respondent, v. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, Appellant.

In January 2006, petitioner was sentenced as a second felony offender to a prison term of 13 years, followed by five years of postrelease supervision, upon his conviction of burglary in the second degree. Neither the sentence and commitment order nor the sentencing minutes specified whether this sentence was to run consecutively to or concurrently with petitioner's prior undischarged prison term. Respondent treated petitioner's 2006 sentence as running consecutively to his prior undischarged term, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge that computation. Supreme Court annulled respondent's determination and this appeal ensued.

Where a statute mandates the imposition of a consecutive sentence, the sentencing court is deemed to have imposed the consecutive sentence the law requires — even in the absence of an express judicial pronouncement to that effect ( see People ex rel. Gill v Greene, 12 NY3d 1, 4; People ex rel. Gathers v Artus, 63 AD3d 1435, 1436; People ex rel. Hunter v Yelich, 63 AD3d 1424, 1425; People ex rel. Styles v Rabsatt, 63 AD3d 1365, 1366). As there is no dispute that petitioner was subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a) — indeed, he concedes this point — we discern no error in respondent's computation of his sentence ( see Matter of Grey v Fischer, 63 AD3d 1431, 1432; People ex rel. Taylor v Brown, 62 AD3d 1063, 1064). Accordingly, Supreme Court's judgment is reversed and the petition is dismissed.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs, and petition dismissed.

Use AI to get other relevant cases.

Comments

TUCKER v. N.Y. STATE DEPT. OF CORREC. SERV
(Oct 8, 2009)