People v Cutts
2022 NY Slip Op 05666 [209 AD3d 474]
October 11, 2022
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 30, 2022


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Kowan Cutts, Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Simon Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Kalani A. Browne of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert A. Neary, J.), rendered February 21, 2018, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of making false statement, stolen vehicles (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 426), and sentencing him to a definite jail term of one year, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the mandatory surcharge and crime victim assistance fee imposed at sentencing to $55, and $5, respectively, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal (see People v Thomas, 34 NY3d 545, 559 [2019], cert denied 589 US &mdash, 140 S Ct 2634 [2020]), which forecloses review of his argument that the mandatory surcharge and fees imposed should be vacated pursuant to CPL 420.35 (2-a) (see People v Diaz, 205 AD3d 624 [1st Dept 2022], lv denied 38 NY3d 1133 [2022]). Accordingly, we need not reach the question of whether this statute applies retroactively to defendant, who was convicted before its enactment (see People v Escalona, 202 AD3d 451 [1st Dept 2022], lv denied 38 NY3d 1070 [2022]).

However, the People concede that the amounts of the mandatory surcharge and crime victim assistance fee imposed were incorrect, because the fee schedule set forth in Vehicle and Traffic Law applies, rather than as set forth in the Penal Law. Concur—Gische, J.P., Kern, Gesmer, Rodriguez, Pitt, JJ.