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The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Marc A. MILLER, appellant.
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Craig S. Brown, J.), rendered February 21, 2019, convicting him of aggravated driving while intoxicated in violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192(2–a)(b), upon his plea of guilty, and imposing a sentence of imprisonment followed by a conditional discharge including a directive that he install an ignition interlock device on any vehicle he owns or operates for a period of three years.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating so much of the sentence as directed the defendant to install an ignition interlock device on any vehicle he owns or operates for a period of three years; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
As the People correctly concede, the County Court improperly imposed an ignition interlock device requirement upon the defendant. The defendant pleaded guilty to aggravated driving while intoxicated in violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192(2–a)(b) for “[d]riving while ability impaired by drugs” (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192[4]). A court may impose an ignition interlock device as a condition of probation and conditional discharge only for offenses involving alcohol (see Penal Law § 65.10[2][k–1]). The defendant's conviction here falls outside the scope of the statute authorizing the imposition of such a condition (see People v. Levy, 91 A.D.3d 793, 938 N.Y.S.2d 315). Accordingly, we modify the judgment by vacating so much of the sentence as directed the defendant to install an ignition interlock device on any vehicle he owns or operates for a period of three years.
AUSTIN, J.P., MILLER, LASALLE and BARROS, JJ., concur.
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Docket No: 2019–03277
Decided: February 10, 2021
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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