People v Cooke

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People v Cooke 2012 NY Slip Op 03214 Decided on April 24, 2012 Appellate Division, Second 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 April 24, 2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
RUTH C. BALKIN
ARIEL E. BELEN
LEONARD B. AUSTIN, JJ.
2010-02095
(Ind. No. 4105/99)

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

v

Rakem Cooke, appellant.




Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Kathleen Whooley of
counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard
Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of
counsel; Jaclyn Goodman on the brief), for
respondent.


DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a second resentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brennan, J.), imposed November 13, 2009, which, upon his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, imposed a period of postrelease supervision in addition to the determinate sentence of imprisonment previously imposed upon his first resentence on February 17, 2000.

ORDERED that the second resentence is affirmed.

Since the defendant was still serving his first resentence when the second resentence was imposed, the second resentence to a term including the statutorily required period of postrelease supervision (hereinafter PRS) did not subject him to double jeopardy or violate his right to due process of law (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d 621, 630-633; People v Thompson, 92 AD3d 812; People v Harris, 86 AD3d 543, 543-544). As the second resentence was limited to the correction of the erroneous failure to impose PRS at the original sentencing and the first resentencing, we have no authority to reduce the sentence of imprisonment in the interest of justice on this appeal (see People v Lingle, 16 NY3d at 635; People v Adams, 85 AD3d 1192, 1193; People v Myrick, 84 AD3d 1272).
DILLON, J.P., BALKIN, BELEN and AUSTIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court

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