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RECORD OF DEFENDANT’S ACQUITTAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNSEALED FOR USE IN A SENTENCING PROCEEDING, RECORD SHOULD BE RESEALED BUT ERROR WAS HARMLESS (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a two-judge concurrence, determined the record of defendant’s acquittal should not have been unsealed for use by the sentencing court. The record should be resealed but the error did not require resentencing:

… [W]hile we agree with defendant that the unsealing was improper, we reject [defendant’s] request for resentencing. In People v Patterson (78 NY2d 711 [1991]), the Court of Appeals held that suppression was not required where the police obtained identification evidence in violation of CPL 160.50, and the witness then identified the defendant in court. The Court ruled that “there is nothing in the history of CPL 160.50 or related statutes indicating a legislative intent to confer a constitutionally derived substantial right’, such that the violation of that statute, without more, would justify invocation of the exclusionary rule with respect to subsequent independent and unrelated criminal proceedings” … . We conclude that defendant is entitled to no greater relief based on the statutory violation that resulted in the court’s consideration of the improperly unsealed information at sentencing than he would have been entitled to had the information been admitted at trial. … . People v Anonymous, 2018 NY Slip Op 03097, First Dept 5-1-18

​CRIMINAL LAW (SEALING OF ACQUITTAL RECORD, RECORD OF DEFENDANT’S ACQUITTAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNSEALED FOR USE IN A SENTENCING PROCEEDING, RECORD SHOULD BE RESEALED BUT ERROR WAS HARMLESS (FIRST DEPT))/SEALING (CRIMINAL LAW, ACQUITTAL, SEALING OF ACQUITTAL RECORD, RECORD OF DEFENDANT’S ACQUITTAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNSEALED FOR USE IN A SENTENCING PROCEEDING, RECORD SHOULD BE RESEALED BUT ERROR WAS HARMLESS (FIRST DEPT))/ACQUITTAL (SEALING OF ACQUITTAL RECORD, RECORD OF DEFENDANT’S ACQUITTAL SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNSEALED FOR USE IN A SENTENCING PROCEEDING, RECORD SHOULD BE RESEALED BUT ERROR WAS HARMLESS (FIRST DEPT))

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