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Out of State Conviction of then 15-Year-Old Could Not Serve as Basis for Second Felony Offender Sentence

The Court of Appeals determined that the defendant’s Pennsylvania conviction for third degree murder (when the defendant was 15) could not serve as the basis for a second felony offender sentence.  In so finding, the court noted that the error did not need to be preserved for the Court of Appeals to reach it:

As an initial matter, we conclude that this case falls within the narrow exception to our preservation rule permitting appellate review when a sentence’s illegality is readily discernible from the trial record … . * * *

Penal Law § 30.00 (1) specifies that a person must be at least 16 years old to be criminally responsible for his conduct.  Penal Law § 30.00 (2) lists crimes that are exceptions to this age requirement, but second-degree manslaughter is not among them.  So assuming as we must for purposes of this appeal that third-degree murder in Pennsylvania is equivalent to second degree manslaughter in New York, defendant’s Pennsylvania conviction was not a predicate felony conviction within the meaning of Penal Law § 70.06 (b) (i) because he could not even have been prosecuted for second-degree manslaughter in New York at the age of 15.  People v Santiago, 159, CtApp 10-15-13

 

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