People v Ballard

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People v Ballard 2010 NY Slip Op 04033 [73 AD3d 488] May 11, 2010 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Joanne Ballard, Appellant.

—[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (David Crow of counsel), and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York (Alicia Llosa Chang of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Paula-Rose Stark of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki A. Scherer, J.), rendered September 19, 2007, convicting defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing her a term of 3½ years, unanimously reversed, on the law, to the extent appealed from, the sentence vacated and the matter remanded for resentencing.

As the People concede, defendant should be resentenced because the court expressed reservations about the fairness of the negotiated sentence but stated, erroneously, that it lacked any discretion to impose a more lenient sentence (see People v Farrar, 52 NY2d 302 [1981]). We decline defendant's alternative request for a reduced sentence. Concur—Saxe, J.P., Friedman, Nardelli, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.

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