People v Ventura
2006 NY Slip Op 05111 [30 AD3d 302]
June 22, 2006
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 23, 2006


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Jose Ventura, Appellant.

[*1]Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Efrain Alvarado, J., at original plea; Seth L. Marvin, J., at subsequent plea and sentence), rendered February 4, 2005, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to a term of 3½ to 7 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the DNA databank fee, and otherwise affirmed.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. As the People concede, since the crime was committed prior to the effective date of the legislation (Penal Law § 60.35 [1] [a] [v] [former (1) (e)]), providing for the imposition of a DNA databank fee, that fee should not have been imposed. Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Sullivan, Catterson and Malone, JJ.