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The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Maria F. CARDENAS, appellant.

L. PRISCILLA HALL

Reversed and remitted.

Gerald Zuckerman, Ossining, N.Y., for appellant. Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Adrienne M. Chapoulie and Laurie Sapakoff of counsel), for respondent.

L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P., JEFFREY A. COHEN, SYLVIA O. HINDS–RADIX, and HECTOR D. LaSALLE, JJ.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by her brief, from a sentence of the County Court, Westchester County (Capeci, J.), imposed March 22, 2012, the sentence being a definite term of incarceration of one year, upon her conviction of criminal trespass in the second degree, upon her plea of guilty.

ORDERED that the sentence is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the County Court, Westchester County, for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

The defendant contends that her sentence was excessive or, alternatively, improper. Since the defendant has served her one-year term of incarceration, the question of whether the one-year sentence was excessive is academic ( see People v. Nicholson, 31 A.D.3d 468, 817 N.Y.S.2d 638). However, the one-year sentence may have collateral immigration consequences ( see People v. Bakare, 280 A.D.2d 679, 721 N.Y.S.2d 242; People v. Cuaran, 261 A.D.2d 169, 689 N.Y.S.2d 392). Therefore, the question of whether the defendant was properly sentenced to one year in jail is not academic ( see Matter of Jonathan E., 119 A.D.3d 943, 989 N.Y.S.2d 876).

Under the circumstances of this case, the County Court's imposition of a one-year term of incarceration, after previously pronouncing a sentence of four months of incarceration, was ineffective. Accordingly, although the defendant has served her sentence of incarceration, we nonetheless remit the matter to the County Court, Westchester County, for correction of the sentence and commitment to reflect that the sentence imposed was four months of incarceration.

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