Opinion
2012-04-24
The PEOPLE, etc., 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.
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.
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 N.Y.3d 621, 630–633, 926 N.Y.S.2d 4, 949 N.E.2d 952; People v. Thompson, 92 A.D.3d 812, 938 N.Y.S.2d 443; People v. Harris, 86 A.D.3d 543, 543–544, 926 N.Y.S.2d 319). 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 N.Y.3d at 635, 926 N.Y.S.2d 4, 949 N.E.2d 952; People v. Adams, 85 A.D.3d 1192, 1193, 925 N.Y.S.2d 901; People v. Myrick, 84 A.D.3d 1272, 923 N.Y.S.2d 346).