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Court Should Not Have Imposed a Greater Sentence Based Solely on Bare Fact Defendant Had Been Arrested Since His Guilty Plea

The Fourth Department determined County Court erred when it enhanced defendant’s sentence based solely on the indication in the presentence report that he had been arrested after his guilty plea:

On the day of sentencing, the court noted that, two weeks after defendant’s plea of guilty, defendant was arrested in the Town of Allegany and charged with a violation and a class A misdemeanor. The court thereafter imposed on defendant a term of imprisonment, rather than one of the lesser alternatives it had previously mentioned, based upon defendant’s postplea arrest. The record is clear that the court based its determination to impose a term of imprisonment solely on the information contained in the presentence report that defendant had been arrested and charged with the violation and misdemeanor. Notably, in response to the court’s inquiry concerning “what was happening” with that matter, defense counsel responded that he did not represent defendant on the matter and that it was still pending in local court. Thus, we conclude that, in imposing a term of imprisonment, the court erred in relying on the ” mere fact’ ” that defendant had been arrested …, and that it failed to “carry out an inquiry of sufficient depth to satisfy itself that there was a legitimate basis” for defendant’s arrest … . People v Kolata, 2014 NY Slip Op 05101, 4th Dept 7-3-14

 

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