| People v Meden |
| 2012 NY Slip Op 04597 [96 AD3d 1494] |
| June 8, 2012 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Jason M. Meden, Appellant. |
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Michael J. Violante, District Attorney, Lockport (Laura T. Bittner of counsel), for
respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Niagara County Court (Matthew J. Murphy, III, J.), rendered April 12, 2011. The judgment revoked defendant's sentence of probation and imposed a sentence of imprisonment.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously modified on the law
by vacating the sentence and as modified the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to
Niagara County Court for resentencing in accordance with the following memorandum:
Defendant appeals from a judgment revoking the sentence of probation previously imposed and
convicting him of violating the terms and conditions of his probation. He was sentenced to a
determinate term of incarceration of three years, to be followed by three years of postrelease
supervision. We reject defendant's challenge to the severity of the sentence, but we conclude that
the sentence imposed is illegal and cannot stand despite the failure of either defendant or the
People to raise the issue in County Court or on appeal (see People v Davis, 37 AD3d 1179, 1180 [2007], lv denied
8 NY3d 983 [2007]). Defendant pleaded guilty to attempted assault in the second degree, a class
E felony and, although he was convicted of rape in the second degree in 2007, there is no
indication in the record that he was adjudicated a second felony offender. Defendant therefore
faced an indeterminate term of incarceration ranging from a minimum of 1 to 3 years to a
maximum of 1