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People v Summers
2007 NY Slip Op 50316(U) [14 Misc 3d 1235(A)]
Decided on February 23, 2007
Supreme Court, Kings County
Sullivan, J.
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on February 23, 2007
Supreme Court, Kings County


The People of the State of New York

against

Ramel Summers, Defendant.




3904/02

James P. Sullivan, J.

On March 21, 2003, the defendant pled guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. On April 11, 2003, the defendant was sentenced to a determinate sentence of four years' imprisonment. The defendant has now moved, pro se, for an order pursuant to C.P.L. § 440.20 setting aside the five years of post-release supervision administratively imposed by the Department of Correctional Services. Neither the sentence minutes nor the court's order of commitment mention the imposition of any period of post-release supervision. Therefore, the sentence actually imposed by the court never included, and does not now include, any period of post-release supervision. Following the mandate of the Appellate Division, Second Department, the motion pursuant to C.P.L. § 440.20 must be denied, because the defendant has "received precisely the sentence for which he bargained." People v. Jeffrey Noble, 2007 NY Slip Op. 01326 (2d Dep't Feb. 13, 2007); People v. Rakim Smith, 2007 NY Slip Op. 01157 (2d Dep't Feb. 6, 2007). See also Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler, 298 U.S. 460 (1936); Earley v. Murray, 451 F.3d 71 (2d Cir. 2006). As the sentence does not include a period of post-release supervision, and the Department of Correctional Services is " conclusively bound by the contents of commitment papers accompanying a prisoner,'" Murray v. Goord, 1 NY3d 29, 32 (2003) (quoting Middleton v. New York, 54 AD2d 450, 452 (3d Dep't 1976)), it should "comply with the plain terms" of the commitment order. Murray v. Goord, 1 NY3d at 32.

Accordingly, defendant's motion to vacate the judgment of conviction is denied. This constitutes the decision and order of the Court.

Dated:February 23, 2007

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James P. Sullivan, J.S.C.