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APPELLATE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO FILE AN AMENDED BRIEF OR A SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF AFTER THE COURT OF APPEALS RULED SENTENCING COURTS MUST CONSIDER YOUTHFUL OFFENDER STATUS FOR ALL WHO ARE ELIGIBLE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, vacating defendant’s sentence, determined appellate counsel was ineffective and granted a writ of coram nobis. Appellate counsel did not raise the sentencing court’s failure to consider defendant’s eligibility for a youthful offender adjudication. Although the controlling case was decided after the appellate brief was filed, appellate counsel should have amended the brief or submitted a supplemental brief:

… [W]e grant the defendant’s application for a writ of error coram nobis, based on former appellate counsel’s failure to contend on appeal that the Supreme Court failed to determine whether the defendant should be afforded youthful offender status. As held by the Court of Appeals in People v Rudolph (21 NY3d 497, 501), CPL 720.20(1) requires “that there be a youthful offender determination in every case where the defendant is eligible, even where the defendant fails to request it, or agrees to forgo it as part of a plea bargain.” Here, the record does not demonstrate that the court considered whether to adjudicate the defendant a youthful offender, even though the defendant was eligible … . We acknowledge that the Court of Appeals decided Rudolph shortly after former appellate counsel filed the brief on the appeal. However, under the circumstances of this case, after Rudolph was decided, the standard of meaningful representation required former appellate counsel to seek to amend the brief or file a supplemental brief in order to argue that, pursuant to Rudolph, the sentence must be vacated and the matter remitted for determination of the defendant’s youthful offender status … . People v Downing, 2021 NY Slip Op 06698, Second Dept 12-1-21

 

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