| People v Davis |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 03539 [239 AD3d 488] |
| June 10, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Kevin Davis, Appellant. |
Caprice R. Jenerson, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Victorien Wu of counsel), for appellant.
Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Bridget White of counsel), for respondent.
Crimes
- Sentence
- Probation
- Violation of Lawful Term
- First-Degree Rape Conviction
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. Conviser, J.), entered on or about February 6, 2020, which denied defendant's CPL 440.20 motion to set aside his sentence, unanimously affirmed.
The court providently exercised its discretion in summarily denying defendant's CPL 440.20
motion, as the moving papers did not allege any basis to set aside defendant's sentence
(see CPL 440.30 [4] [a]). Although the sentencing court initially lacked the authority to
impose interim probation in 1983 (see People v Rodney E., 77 NY2d 672, 674, 676
[1991]), defendant successfully completed that term and, at sentencing, the court lawfully
sentenced him to five years of probation, in accordance with the court's promise during the plea
proceedings. Over a year later, while defendant was serving this authorized term of probation, a
jury found defendant guilty of rape in the first degree (see People v Davis, 127 AD2d 490
[1st Dept 1987], lv denied 70 NY2d 703 [1987]). As a result, in May of 1985, the court
properly revoked his probationary sentence and sentenced him to a lawful prison term of
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