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DEFENDANT, WHO HAD SERVED THE FULL FOUR YEARS OF HIS 1 1/3 TO FOUR YEAR SENTENCE FOR DWI, COULD NOT BE SENTENCED TO MORE PRISON TIME FOR A PROBATION VIOLATION (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing County Court, determined defendant could not be sentenced to more prison time for a violation of probation in this driving while intoxicated case. Defendant had served the full four years of his 1 1/3 to 4 year sentence when he violated probation by driving while intoxicated, unlicensed operation, refusal of a breath test and operating without an ignition interlock device

[In People v Coon, 156 AD3d 105, the] [3rd] Department held that, “where [the defendant] has already served and completed the one-year definite sentence imposed for the DWI conviction, County Court was not authorized to impose an additional term of imprisonment upon his violation of the conditional discharge terms” … . In reaching that conclusion, the [3rd] Department noted that “[t]he statutory framework governing sentencing does not cover these factual circumstances,” and there were “no corresponding statutes or amendments to already existing statutes that delineated the types of sanctions that courts could impose in a case such as this one” … .

While here defendant was sentenced to an indeterminate term of imprisonment followed by probation instead of a definite jail term followed by a conditional discharge, we conclude that those distinctions are immaterial. Defendant served the maximum term of imprisonment imposed, i.e., four years on his sentence of 1⅓ to 4 years, and we conclude that he cannot be subjected to additional prison time under the guise of a sentence based on a probation or conditional discharge violation when, in fact, he was resentenced for the initial offense. People v Zirbel, 2018 NY Slip Op 02064, Fourth Dept 3-23-18

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