People v. Robles
| Decision Date | 02 June 1998 |
| Citation | 673 N.Y.S.2d 654,251 A.D.2d 20 |
| Parties | , 1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 5158 The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Julio ROBLES, Defendant-Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Leslie Catherine Perrin, for Respondent.
Sharon P. Carlstedt, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before SULLIVAN, J.P., and ROSENBERGER, RUBIN and WILLIAMS, JJ.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered July 17, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, resisting arrest and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 12 1/2 to 25 years, 3 1/2 to 7 years, 1 year and 1 year, respectively, unanimously modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the conviction for criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and dismissing that count of the indictment, vacating the predicate felony finding, and vacating the sentence on the conviction for assault in the second degree and replacing it with a term of 2 1/3 to 7 years, and otherwise affirmed.
We find that the challenged remarks in summation, taken in context, were proper comment on the evidence and were responsive to defendant's summation.
The conviction for criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree must be vacated, and that count of the indictment dismissed, since there was no evidence of the operability of any of the weapons involved in the incident, none of which were recovered. Although this issue was not preserved for appellate review, we reach it in the interest of justice (see, People v. McInnis, 179 A.D.2d 781, 783, 579 N.Y.S.2d 144, lv. denied 79 N.Y.2d 1004, 584 N.Y.S.2d 459, 594 N.E.2d 953).
Defendant's adjudication as a second felony offender must be vacated. The predicate for this adjudication was a 1991 conviction for which, the parties agree, an illegal sentence was imposed; a lawful sentence was not imposed until after the instant crimes were committed. Thus, the 1991 matter may not serve as a predicate felony conviction in the instant case (Penal Law § 70.06[1][b][ii]; People v. Bell, 138 A.D.2d 298, 300, 526 N.Y.S.2d 105 [Sullivan, J., dissenting], mod. on dissenting opn., 73 N.Y.2d 153, 165, 538 N.Y.S.2d 754, 535 N.E.2d 1294; People v. Juliano, 207 A.D.2d 414, 615 N.Y.S.2d 460, lv. denied 84...
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