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APPELLATE COURT EXERCISED ITS POWER TO REDUCE A SENTENCE EVEN THOUGH THE SENTENCING COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, NOTING EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department exercised its power to reduce a sentence in the absence of an abuse of discretion by the sentencing judge. In the midst of difficult divorce proceedings defendant deposited a check made out to her and her husband. The evidence demonstrated the husband’s signature was forged and defendant was convicted of criminal possession of a forged instrument. The Third Department did not explain the extraordinary circumstances but deemed the four-month sentence inappropriate and imposed a time-served sentence of 13 days:

“Ordinarily, we refrain from exercising our power to modify a sentence unless the sentencing court abused its discretion or extraordinary circumstances exist warranting such a modification” … . In our view, the circumstances surrounding the commission of the crime and defendant herself are extraordinary and warrant the exercise of that power. Defendant has already served 13 days in jail and, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, we reduce the jail component of her sentence to time served … . People v Gretzinger, 2018 NY Slip Op 05716, Third Dept 8-9-18

CRIMINAL LAW (SENTENCING, APPELLATE COURT EXERCISED ITS POWER TO REDUCE A SENTENCE EVEN THOUGH THE SENTENCING COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, NOTING EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES (THIRD DEPT))/SENTENCING (APPELLATE COURT EXERCISED ITS POWER TO REDUCE A SENTENCE EVEN THOUGH THE SENTENCING COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, NOTING EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES (THIRD DEPT))/APPEALS (CRIMINAL LAW, SENTENCING, APPELLATE COURT EXERCISED ITS POWER TO REDUCE A SENTENCE EVEN THOUGH THE SENTENCING COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, NOTING EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES (THIRD DEPT))

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