Phillips v. Fischer

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Phillips v. Fischer

74 A.D.3d 1660, 902 N.Y.S.2d 456

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedJune 24, 2010

StatusPublished

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Phillips v. Fischer, 74 A.D.3d 1660, 902 N.Y.S.2d 456 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2010).

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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (O’Connor, J.), entered October 22, 2009 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition.

In December 1997, petitioner was sentenced as a second violent felony offender to an aggregate prison term of 17V2 years upon his conviction of, among other crimes, burglary in the second degree. The sentence and commitment order was silent as to the manner in which this sentence was to run relative to petitioner’s prior undischarged prison term. The Department of Correctional Services treated petitioner’s 1997 sentence as running consecutively to his prior undischarged term, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge that computation. Supreme Court granted respondent’s subsequent, apparently unopposed, motion to dismiss and this appeal ensued.

There is no dispute that petitioner was sentenced in 1997 as a second violent felony offender and, therefore, was subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a). Where, as here, a statute compels the sentencing court to impose a consecutive sentence, the 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 [2009], cert denied sub nom. Gill v Rock, 558 US —, 130 S Ct 86 [2009]; Matter of Lowman v Fischer, 67 AD3d 1271, 1272 [2009]; Matter of High v Rabsatt, 67 AD3d 1262, 1263 [2009]). Accordingly, we discern no error in the computation of petitioner’s sentence (see Matter of Garner v Rivera, 68 AD3d 1230, 1231 [2009]).

[1661]*1661Cardona, P.J., Spain, Malone Jr., Kavanagh and McCarthy, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.

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Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (O’Connor, J.), entered October 22, 2009 in Albany County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition.

In December 1997, petitioner was sentenced as a second violent felony offender to an aggregate prison term of 17V2 years upon his conviction of, among other crimes, burglary in the second degree. The sentence and commitment order was silent as to the manner in which this sentence was to run relative to petitioner’s prior undischarged prison term. The Department of Correctional Services treated petitioner’s 1997 sentence as running consecutively to his prior undischarged term, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge that computation. Supreme Court granted respondent’s subsequent, apparently unopposed, motion to dismiss and this appeal ensued.

There is no dispute that petitioner was sentenced in 1997 as a second violent felony offender and, therefore, was subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a). Where, as here, a statute compels the sentencing court to impose a consecutive sentence, the 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 [2009], cert denied sub nom. Gill v Rock, 558 US —, 130 S Ct 86 [2009]; Matter of Lowman v Fischer, 67 AD3d 1271, 1272 [2009]; Matter of High v Rabsatt, 67 AD3d 1262, 1263 [2009]). Accordingly, we discern no error in the computation of petitioner’s sentence (see Matter of Garner v Rivera, 68 AD3d 1230, 1231 [2009]).

[1661]*1661Cardona, P.J., Spain, Malone Jr., Kavanagh and McCarthy, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.

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