| Matter of Ortiz v Annucci |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 07070 [143 AD3d 1209] |
| October 27, 2016 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Federico Ortiz,
Appellant, v Anthony J. Annucci, as Acting Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision, Respondent. |
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Mark W. Zeno of counsel), for appellant.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Laura Etlinger of counsel), for respondent.
Peters, P.J. Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Zwack, J.), entered September 4, 2015 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner's application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to compel the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to credit petitioner for jail time served on a previously imposed sentence.
On November 8, 2000, petitioner was sentenced to 3
In 2011, after the Court of Appeals held that DOCCS lacked the authority to impose
a statutorily-required period of PRS (see Matter of Garner v New York State Dept. of Correctional
Servs., 10 NY3d 358, 362-363 [2008]), petitioner was resentenced for his 2000
conviction of attempted robbery and received the same sentence of 3
We affirm. Penal Law § 70.30 (3) provides, in relevant part, that a person shall receive jail time credit for time spent "in custody prior to the commencement of such sentence as a result of the charge that culminated in the sentence," and that credit "shall not include any time that is credited against the term or maximum term of any previously imposed sentence or period of [PRS]." Here, upon being resentenced in 2011, without any term of PRS, for his 2000 attempted robbery conviction, petitioner's maximum expiration date for his 2000 sentence was February 10, 2004. Thus, because the 2000 sentence and 2007 sentence could not then have run concurrently, petitioner is not entitled to receive any jail time credit served for the 2000 sentence under Penal Law § 70.30 (1) (a). Nor is any of the jail time for which petitioner seeks credit the result of the same attempted murder charge that culminated in the 2007 sentence (see Penal Law § 70.30 [3]; Matter of Hurley v Fox, 133 AD3d 997, 998 [2015]; Matter of Henderson v Fischer, 110 AD3d 1131, 1132 [2013], lv denied 22 NY3d 857 [2013]). Moreover, "nullification of the PRS does not constitute 'a dismissal or an acquittal' of petitioner's 2000 charge[ ] within the meaning of Penal Law § 70.30 (3)" (Matter of Henderson v Fischer, 110 AD3d at 1132; see generally Matter of Jeffrey v Ward, 44 NY2d 812, 814 [1978]).
Furthermore, we are unpersuaded by petitioner's contention that removal of jail time credit on the 2007 sentence for time served on the 2000 sentence constituted multiple punishments for the same offense and therefore violated principles of double jeopardy (see US Const 5th Amend; CPL 40.20 [1]; People v Brinson, 21 NY3d 490, 494 [2013]). In this context, "this basic constitutional guarantee is violated when punishment already exacted for an offense is not fully 'credited' in imposing sentence upon a new conviction for the same offense" (North Carolina v Pearce, 395 US 711, 718 [1969]; see Penal Law § 70.30 [5]). The removal of jail time credit for the time that petitioner served on the 2000 sentence cannot constitute another punishment for the 2007 sentence because the sentences did not arise from the same offense or charges. Accordingly, we find that the calculation of petitioner's jail time credit was proper under the circumstances of this case.
McCarthy, Garry, Rose and Mulvey, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.