THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK RESPONDENT v. APPEAL NO (2015)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

It is hereby ORDERED that the resentence so appealed from is unanimously modified on the law by reducing the period of postrelease supervision to a period of five years and as modified the resentence is affirmed.

Memorandum:  In appeal No. 1, defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05 [3] ) and criminal contempt in the first degree (§ 215.51[c] ).  We note at the outset that defendant's contention on appeal concerns only the resentence in appeal No. 2, and we therefore dismiss the appeal from the judgment (see generally People v. Scholz, 125 AD3d 1492, 1492).

As the People correctly concede in appeal No. 2, the resentence is illegal insofar as it imposes a 10–year period of postrelease supervision on defendant as a second felony offender convicted of assault in the second degree (see Penal Law § 70.45[2] ).   We therefore modify the resentence in appeal No. 2 by reducing the period of postrelease supervision to a period of five years.

Frances E. Cafarell

Clerk of the Court