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THE TEN-YEAR LOOKBACK FOR A PERSISTENT VIOLENT FELONY OFFENDER DESIGNATION FOR SENTENCING PURPOSES IS TOLLED BY PRESENTENCE, AS WELL AS POST-SENTENCE, INCARCERATION (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Garcia, over an extensive two-judge dissenting opinion, determined the ten-year lookback for a persistent violent felony offender designation is tolled by any presentence period of incarceration:

A person convicted of a violent felony offense is a “persistent violent felony offender” for sentencing purposes if that person has “two or more predicate violent felony convictions” (Penal Law § 70.08 [1] [a], [b]). Those potentially qualifying felony convictions must satisfy the timing requirement set forth in Penal Law § 70.04, namely that the sentence on the prior crime must have been imposed not more than ten years before the commission of the current felony (Penal Law § 70.04 [1] [b] [iv]). This ten-year lookback period is extended by any period of incarceration between commission of the prior felony and commission of the current felony (Penal Law § 70.04 [1] [b] [v]). Defendant challenges any extension of the ten-year lookback period using time he spent in presentence incarceration on his earliest qualifying felony conviction. We now hold that pursuant to Penal Law § 70.04, defendant’s presentence incarceration time did extend the ten-year period and therefore defendant was properly sentenced as a persistent violent felony offender. People v Hernandez, 2025 NY Slip Op 00904, CtApp 2-18-25

Practice Point: The ten-year lookback for a persistent violent felony offender designation is tolled by both presentence and post-sentence incarceration.

 

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