People v. Davis

• Decision Date: 16 November 2004
• Docket Number: 4220.
• Citation: 2004 NY Slip Op 08161,12 A.D.3d 237,784 N.Y.S.2d 536
• Parties: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARL DAVIS, Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

12 A.D.3d 237

784 N.Y.S.2d 536

2004 NY Slip Op 08161

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARL DAVIS, Appellant.

4220.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 16, 2004.

Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, New York County (James Yates, J.), rendered November 12, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of assault in the second degree, one count of reckless endangerment in the first degree and one count of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to three consecutive sentences of 7, 5 and 5 years for the assault convictions, 3½ to 7 years for reckless endangerment and 2 to 4 years for grand larceny, with the latter sentences to run concurrently with the sentences for the assault convictions, unanimously modified, on the law, by providing that the sentences imposed on the first two assault convictions run concurrently with each other and with those imposed on the reckless endangerment and grand larceny convictions and that the sentence on the third assault conviction run consecutively to these sentences, and, as so modified, affirmed.

Two of the assaults of which defendant was convicted arose from defendant's head-on collision with a marked police car in which two officers were injured. The third assault conviction arose from injuries sustained by a third police officer in the ensuing struggle. On resentence,^* the court ordered the three assault sentences to run consecutively, with the sentences for reckless endangerment and grand larceny to run concurrently to the sentences for the assault charges. As the People concede, the sentences imposed for the two assault convictions for injuries sustained by the police officers as a result of defendant's collision with the police car cannot run consecutively to each other since they arose out of the same act (see Penal Law § 70.25 [2]; People v Ramirez, 89 NY2d 444, 452 [1996]). Accordingly, we modify to direct that those sentences run concurrently with each other and with the sentences for reckless endangerment and grand larceny. The sentence for the third assault conviction is to run consecutively to the other sentences, as originally imposed. Since the aggregate sentence is consistent with the intent of the resentencing court, we see no need for a remand (see People v Lawrence, 130 AD2d 383 [1987]; see also People v LaSalle, 95 NY2d 827 [2000]).

While defendant asks that the sentences for the assaults all...