| People v Paulin |
| 2018 NY Slip Op 03379 [161 AD3d 892] |
| May 9, 2018 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Rakim Paulin, Appellant. |
Steven A. Feldman, Uniondale, NY, for appellant.
William V. Grady, District Attorney, Poughkeepsie, NY (Kirsten A. Rappleyea of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Peter M. Forman, J.), rendered October 27, 2016, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant previously appealed from a judgment rendered June 29, 2011, convicting him
of, among other crimes, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. This Court
reversed that judgment of conviction and ordered a new trial (see People v Paulin, 140 AD3d 985 [2016]). The defendant
subsequently agreed to plead guilty to one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance
in the fifth degree in exchange for a promised sentence of 2
The defendant contends that the County Court erred in imposing a 1-year period of
postrelease supervision at sentencing, because he had already served 6 years of imprisonment
pursuant to the judgment rendered June 29, 2011. Contrary to the defendant's contention, the
court properly imposed the sentence of 2