Opinion

People v. Brown

  • 135 A.D.3d 605
  • 22 N.Y.S.3d 870
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Jan 26, 2016
Status
Published
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 50.9%

The opinion

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Bart Stone, J.), rendered September 6, 2012, as amended October 2, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of identity theft in the first degree (two counts), grand larceny in the third degree (two counts), criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree (two counts), computer trespass and unlawful possession of personal identification information in the third degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

*606

Defendant’s claim that his out-of-state conviction was not the equivalent of a New York felony is unpreserved because there was neither a timely objection before the sentencing court nor was the issue raised by a CPL 440.20 motion

(see People v Jurgins,

26 NY3d 607 [2015]). We decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits. The foreign statute at issue is equivalent to a New York felony

(see

Penal Law § 155.00 [3];

Matter of Reinaldo O.,

250 AD2d 502 [1st Dept 1998],

lv denied

92 NY2d 809 [1998];

People v Kirnon,

39 AD2d 666, 667 [1972],

affd

31 NY2d 877 [1972];

see also People v Barden,

117 AD3d 216, 232-235 [1st Dept 2014],

lv granted

24 NY2d 959 [2014]).

The sentence was properly enhanced for defendant’s failure to comply with a condition unambiguously set forth by the court

(see People v Cataldo,

39 NY2d 578, 580 [1976];

People v Baptiste,

116 AD3d 588 [1st Dept 2014],

lv denied

24 NY3d 1081 [2014]), and we perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.

We have considered and rejected defendant’s remaining claims. Concur — Tom, J.P., Renwick, Moskowitz, Richter and Kapnick, JJ.

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