| People v Adams |
| 2015 NY Slip Op 02355 [126 AD3d 1405] |
| March 20, 2015 |
| 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 Elijah W. Adams, Appellant. (Appeal No. 1.) |
Timothy P. Donaher, Public Defender, Rochester (James Eckert of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Sandra Doorley, District Attorney, Rochester (Robert J. Shoemaker of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Monroe County Court (Vincent M. Dinolfo, J.), rendered February 24, 2011. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from three judgments rendered by County Court
on the same day. In appeal Nos. 1 and 2, defendant appeals from judgments convicting
him upon his pleas of guilty of, respectively, criminal possession of a weapon in the
second degree (Penal Law § 265.03 [3]) and criminal possession of a
controlled substance in the third degree (§ 220.16 [1]). In appeal No. 3,
defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon his admission that he violated the terms
and conditions of his probation, revoking his probation, and sentencing him to
concurrent terms of incarceration of 2
We reject defendant's contention in appeal Nos. 1 and 2 that the search by the probation officers of his home and a safe located therein was unlawful. Although probationers and parolees have a constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures (see People v Hale, 93 NY2d 454, 459 [1999]; People v Johnson, 94 AD3d 1529, 1531 [2012], lv denied 19 NY3d 974 [2012]), " 'what may be unreasonable with respect to an individual who is not on parole [or probation] may be reasonable with respect to one who is' " (Johnson, 94 AD3d at 1531, quoting People v Huntley, 43 NY2d 175, 181 [1977]). The conditions of defendant's probation regarding drug and alcohol use and prohibiting his ownership of firearms were a proper basis for the probation officers' search of his home and property therein (see Hale, 93 NY2d at 462; People v Wheeler, 99 AD3d 1168, 1170 [2012], lv denied 20 NY3d 989 [2012]). The search was carried out as part of the probation officers' duties as probation officers, and "the assistance of police officers at the scene did not render the search a police operation" (People v Johnson, 54 AD3d 969, 970 [2008]; see Johnson, 94 AD3d at 1532; People v Scott, 93 AD3d 1193, 1194 [2012], lv denied 19 NY3d 967 [2012], reconsideration denied 19 NY3d 1001 [2012]).
Defendant contends that we must reverse the judgment in appeal No. 3 in the event
that we reverse the judgments in appeal Nos. 1 and 2 (see generally People v
Pichardo, 1 NY3d 126, 129 [2003]). We reject defendant's contention, inasmuch
as we are affirming the judgments in appeal Nos. 1 and 2. We conclude, however, that
the sentence in appeal No. 3 must be vacated. Assault in the second degree is a class D
violent felony for which an indeterminate sentence is not authorized (see Penal
Law § 70.02 [1] [c]; [2] [b]; People v Delorenzo, 34 AD3d 868, 869 [2006]; see generally People v Endresz,
1 AD3d 888, 888-889 [2003]). In addition, the indeterminate term of
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