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DEFENDANT’S 140-YEARS-TO-LIFE SENTENCE IN THIS PREDATORY-SEXUAL-ASSAULT-OF-A-CHILD PROSECUTION DEEMED UNDULY HARSH AND SEVERE; THE PEOPLE HAD TWICE OFFERED A 15-20-YEAR SENTENCE; SENTENCE REDUCED TO 20-TO-LIFE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department held that defendant’s 140 years-to-life sentence in this predatory-sexual-assault-of-a-child prosecution was unduly harsh and severe. The sentence was reduced to 20 years-to-life:​

We turn to defendant’s aggregate sentence of 140 years to life in prison. As a threshold matter, our determination that the sentences imposed on counts 2 and 15 must run concurrently reduces defendant’s aggregate prison term to 118 years to life. The bulk of that remaining aggregate sentence is still consumed by the consecutive 22-years-to-life prison terms imposed for defendant’s convictions of predatory sexual assault against a child under counts 2 and 15, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Although defendant’s crimes are heinous, the sentences on each of those counts are near the top end of the permissible range notwithstanding defendant’s lack of any prior criminal history (see Penal Law § 70.80 [2] …). We also note that the People advocated for the 140-years-to-life aggregate sentence even though that sentence exceeded by over a century their plea offer of 12 to 15 years in satisfaction of all 15 counts of the indictment — an offer they extended twice.

Accordingly, we find that defendant’s aggregate prison sentence is unduly harsh and severe (see CPL 470.15 [6] [b] …). We modify the sentences, in the interest of justice, by reducing the term of imprisonment imposed on defendant’s convictions on the counts of predatory sexual assault against a child (counts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15) to 20 years to life, and we direct those sentences to run concurrently with each other. We further modify the sentences imposed on counts 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 to run concurrently with each other and with the sentences imposed on counts 2 and 15, 4, 5, 6 and 7, resulting in an aggregate prison term of 20 years to life, to be followed by 10 years of postrelease supervision … . People v Mayette, 2024 NY Slip Op 06083, Third Dept 12-5-24

Practice Point: Here the court noted that the People had offered a 15-20-year sentence as part of a plea deal and then advocated for the 140-years-to-life sentence upon conviction, which was imposed. The Third Department reduced the sentence to 20-to-life.​

 

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