PEOPLE v. AGUIRRE (2008)

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered April 8, 2004, convicting her of manslaughter in the first degree, upon her plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the sentence imposed;  as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for resentencing that properly includes a period of postrelease supervision as part of the sentence.

The defendant was sentenced, as promised, to a determinate term of 10 years imprisonment.   The sentencing minutes indicate that the Supreme Court also stated that the defendant would be subject to a period of postrelease supervision by the Parole Board, but did not pronounce the period thereof.   However, a notation on the order of sentence and commitment signed by the Clerk of that court indicated that the defendant's period of postrelease supervision was to be five years.

Since the defendant does not wish to take back her plea of guilty, and the term of the period of postrelease supervision was not pronounced by the sentencing court, this Court must vacate the sentence and remit the matter to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for resentencing that properly includes a period of postrelease supervision as part of the sentence (see People v. Sparber, 10 N.Y.3d 457, 469, 859 N.Y.S.2d 582, 889 N.E.2d 459;  see also People v. Selikoff, 35 N.Y.2d 227, 360 N.Y.S.2d 623, 318 N.E.2d 784, cert. denied 419 U.S. 1122, 95 S.Ct. 806, 42 L.Ed.2d 822;  cf. People v. Hill, 9 N.Y.3d 189, 849 N.Y.S.2d 13, 879 N.E.2d 152;  People v. Van Deusen, 7 N.Y.3d 744, 819 N.Y.S.2d 854, 853 N.E.2d 223).