People v Bond
2013 NY Slip Op 08821 [112 AD3d 547]
December 31, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 29, 2014


The People of the State of New York, Appellant,
v
Thomas Bond, Also Known as Thomas Barnes, Also Known as Ali Achmed, Respondent.

[*1] Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Justin J. Braun of counsel), for appellant.

Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Elon Harpaz of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Richard Lee Price, J.), rendered October 12, 2012, resentencing defendant, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of seven years, and bringing up for review an order of the same court and Justice, entered on or about September 14, 2012, which granted defendant's CPL 440.20 motion to set aside his sentence as a persistent violent felony offender and directed that he be resentenced as a second violent felony offender, unanimously reversed, on the law, the judgment of resentence vacated, and the matter remanded for resentencing consistent with People v Boyer (22 NY3d 15 [2013]).

In view of the Court of Appeals' recent decision in Boyer, defendant was not entitled to relief under CPL 440.20 from his original sentencing as a persistent violent felony offender. Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of resentence and remand for resentencing in accordance with the rule stated in Boyer. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Freedman, Richter, Feinman and Gische, JJ.

[Recalled and vacated, see 115 AD3d 611.]