Matter of Caban v Fischer

Matter of Caban v Fischer 2009 NY Slip Op 09349 [68 AD3d 1405] December 17, 2009 Appellate Division, Third Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 10, 2010

In the Matter of Miguel Caban, Appellant, v Brian S. Fischer, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Respondent.

—[*1] Miguel Caban, Marcy, appellant pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Frank Brady of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McDonough, J.), entered April 1, 2009 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of the Department of Correctional Services calculating petitioner's prison sentence.

In 2007, petitioner was sentenced, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was for a violent felony, to a term of imprisonment of eight years to be followed by three years of postrelease supervision. Neither the sentence and commitment order nor the sentencing minutes made any mention of how this sentence was to run relative to petitioner's prior undischarged prison term. The Department of Correctional Services calculated petitioner's 2007 sentence as running consecutively to his prior undischarged term, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge that computation. Supreme Court dismissed the petition, and this appeal ensued.

We affirm. Where a sentencing court is required by statute to impose a consecutive sentence, it is deemed to have imposed the consecutive sentence the law requires—even in the absence of a judicial pronouncement to that effect (see People ex rel. Gill v Greene, 12 NY3d 1, 4 [2009], cert denied sub nom. Gill v Rock, 558 US —, 130 S Ct 86 [2009]; Matter of Grey v Fischer, 63 AD3d 1431, 1432 [2009]). Here, the record confirms that petitioner was sentenced in [*2]2007 as a second felony drug offender previously convicted of a violent felony offense and, therefore, was subject to the consecutive sentencing provisions of Penal Law § 70.25 (2-a). Accordingly, we discern no error in the computation of petitioner's sentence (see Matter of King v Fischer, 62 AD3d 1221, 1222 [2009], lv denied 13 NY3d 703 [2009]).

Cardona, P.J., Rose, Lahtinen, Kavanagh and Stein, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.