People v Torres

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People v Torres 2017 NY Slip Op 08340 Decided on November 28, 2017 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on November 28, 2017
Tom, J.P., Friedman, Andrias, Gesmer, JJ.
5076 2239/03

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Joseph Torres, Defendant-Appellant.



Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Kristina Schwarz of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.



Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered November 8, 2010, resentencing defendant, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 years, followed by 5 years of postrelease supervision, unanimously affirmed.

The resentencing proceeding imposing a term of postrelease supervision was neither barred by double jeopardy nor otherwise

unlawful (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d 621 [2011]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: NOVEMBER 28, 2017

CLERK



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