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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT, v. JIMMY VELASQUEZ, DEFENDANT–APPELLANT.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Appeal, by permission of a Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Russell P. Buscaglia, A.J.), entered February 1, 2012. The order denied defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 440.20 to set aside his sentence.
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
After we granted defendant leave to appeal herein, the Court of Appeals expressly stated that “a resentencing to correct the flawed imposition of PRS does not vacate the original sentence and replace it with an entirely new sentence, but instead merely corrects a clerical error and leaves the original sentence, along with the date of that sentence, undisturbed” (People v. Boyer, 22 NY3d 15, 24; see People v. Hall, 124 AD3d 795, 796; People v. Miller, 118 AD3d 1463, 1464, lv. denied 24 NY3d 1003). Because defendant was lawfully sentenced on the predicate offense in question before he was convicted of the offense for which he was sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender, “it qualifies as a prior [violent] felony conviction” (People v. Wood, 115 AD3d 613, 613, lv denied 22 NY3d 1204). We thus conclude that the court properly denied defendant's motion.
We have reviewed defendant's remaining contentions, including the contention set forth in his pro se supplemental brief, and conclude that they lack merit.
Frances E. Cafarell
Clerk of the Court
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Docket No: KA 12–00585
Decided: March 27, 2015
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
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