People v. Arroyo
| Decision Date | 08 July 1999 |
| Citation | 717 N.E.2d 696,695 N.Y.S.2d 537,93 N.Y.2d 990 |
| Parties | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. SAMUEL ARROYO, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Lynne F. Stewart, New York City, for appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York County, New York City (Carol A. Remer-Smith and Morrie I. Kleinbart of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Chief Judge KAYE and Judges BELLACOSA, SMITH, CIPARICK, WESLEY and ROSENBLATT concur; Judge LEVINE taking no part.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
In January 1991, after some discussion and planning, defendant, Jose Sorrentini and Chris Claudio—the driver, the lookout and the shooter, respectively—lured Guy Maresca to a deserted area in the Bronx by ordering pizza from his place of employment. When Maresca drove to the appointed address to make his delivery, Claudio ran toward him and fired a single shot. He missed. Claudio made a second attempt to shoot Maresca, but the gun jammed and Maresca sped away. Based on information provided by Sorrentini, a police informant, all three men were arrested and charged. After trial, defendant was convicted of conspiracy in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He was sentenced to consecutive, indeterminate prison terms of 8 1/3 to 25 years and 5 to 15 years, respectively, on the attempted murder and conspiracy counts and to a concurrent term of 5 to 15 years on the weapons possession count.
On appeal, defendant asserts that the court was without authority to impose consecutive sentences for conspiracy and attempted murder. We disagree.
Concurrent sentences are required only "for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or through an act or omission which in itself constituted one of the offenses and also was a material element of the other" (Penal Law § 70.25 [2]). Thus, consecutive sentences may not be imposed "(1) where a single act constitutes two offenses, or (2) where a single act constitutes one of the offenses and a material element of the other" (People v Laureano, 87 NY2d 640, 643; see also, People v Day, 73 NY2d 208, 210-211).
To establish the defendant's guilt of conspiracy in the second degree, the People were required to prove that, with the intent that a class A felony be committed, the defendant agreed with others to engage in or cause the felony to be committed (Penal Law § 105.15) and that one of the conspirators committed an overt act in furtherance of the criminal scheme (Penal Law § 105.20). On the other hand, an attempt to commit murder in the second degree required proof that, with the intent to commit the crime of murder in the second degree, the defendant engaged in conduct which tended to effect the commission of...
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