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NEW JERSEY FORGED INSTRUMENT CONVICTION WAS NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF A NEW YORK FELONY AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE BASIS OF SECOND FELONY OFFENDER STATUS (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Renwick, ordering the resentencing of defendant, determined the defendant’s prior New Jersey forged instrument conviction was not the equivalent of a New York felony and therefore could not be the basis of second felony offender status:

The first mens rea element of both New York and New Jersey’s crime of uttering a forged instrument are the same: that the defendant had knowledge that the subject instrument was forged. However, the second mens rea element of the New Jersey crime of uttering a forged instrument is broader than the second mens rea element of the New York crime of uttering a forged instrument. Because the New Jersey statute uses the disjunctive “or,” the second mens rea element of the NJ crime of uttering a forged instrument can be satisfied in two different ways: that one who utters a forged instrument must act either with the intent to defraud (purpose to defraud or injure anyone) or with the knowledge that one is facilitating a fraud. By contrast, the second mens rea element of the New York crime of uttering a forged instrument can be satisfied only one way: that the person who utters a forged instrument acted with the “intent to defraud.” Since the New Jersey statute punishes a broader range of mental states than its New York counterpart, it fails New York’s strict equivalency test … . People v Allison, 2018 NY Slip Op 08194, First Dept 11-29-18

CRIMINAL LAW (NEW JERSEY FORGED INSTRUMENT CONVICTION WAS NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF A NEW YORK FELONY AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE BASIS OF SECOND FELONY OFFENDER STATUS (FIRST DEPT))/SENTENCING (NEW JERSEY FORGED INSTRUMENT CONVICTION WAS NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF A NEW YORK FELONY AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE BASIS OF SECOND FELONY OFFENDER STATUS (FIRST DEPT))/SECOND FELONY OFFENDER  (NEW JERSEY FORGED INSTRUMENT CONVICTION WAS NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF A NEW YORK FELONY AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE BASIS OF SECOND FELONY OFFENDER STATUS (FIRST DEPT))

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