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The People, etc., respondent, v. Brian Brown, appellant.
Submitted-February 3, 2011
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brennan, J.), imposed April 28, 2009, which, upon his convictions of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, imposed a period of postrelease supervision in addition to concurrent determinate terms of imprisonment previously imposed on December 19, 2000.
ORDERED that the resentence is affirmed.
The defendant was convicted, upon a jury verdict, of two counts of robbery in the first degree. On December 19, 2000, he was sentenced to two determinate terms of 10 years imprisonment on the robbery convictions, to run concurrently. However, at his initial sentencing hearing, the Supreme Court did not mention the mandatory period of postrelease supervision that he should have been assessed as part of his sentence. On April 28, 2009, while the defendant was still incarcerated and serving the original sentence, he was brought before the Supreme Court for resentencing so the mandatory periods of postrelease supervision could be imposed (see Penal Law § 70.45).
Since the defendant had not yet been released from incarceration on the original sentence when he was resentenced, the resentencing to terms including the statutorily required periods of postrelease supervision did not subject him to double jeopardy or violate his right to due process of law (see People v. Johnson, 79 AD3d 1072; People v. Misla, 78 AD3d 735; People v. Young, 78 AD3d 744; People v. Pruitt, 74 AD3d 1366; People v. Tillman, 74 AD3d 1251; People v. Mendez, 73 AD3d 951; People v. Murrell, 73 AD3d 598, lv granted 15 NY3d 854; People v. Parisi, 72 AD3d 989, lv granted 15 NY3d 776; People v. Scalercio, 71 AD3d 1060; People v. Prendergast, 71 AD3d 1055, lv granted 15 NY3d 808; cf. People v. Williams, 14 NY3d 198, cert denied US, 131 S Ct 125).
ANGIOLILLO, J.P., FLORIO, BELEN and AUSTIN, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Matthew G. Kiernan
Clerk of the Court
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Docket No: 2009-05026 (Ind.No. 2744 /00)
Decided: March 08, 2011
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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