Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1976

People v. Rodriguez

People v. Rodriguez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided July 6, 1976
53 A.D.2d 877; 385 N.Y.S.2d 337; 1976 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13708
People v. Rodriguez

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the People from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed February 9, 1976, on the ground that it is invalid as a matter of law. Sentence reversed, on the law, and case *878remitted to the Criminal Term for resentencing in accordance with the views expressed herein. The facts have not heen considered. CPL 720.10 excludes from youthful offender treatment youths indicted for a class A-I or A-II felony. That does not make it unconstitutional (see People v Santiago, 51 AD2d 1; cf. People v Drayton, 39 NY2d 580). It was therefore error to sentence the defendant herein as a youthful offender, since she had been indicted for a class A-I felony. Latham, Acting P. J., Cohalan, Shapiro and Titone, JJ., concur; Rabin, J., concurs in the result on constraint of People v Santiago (51 AD2d 1).

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