Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1979

People v. Christmas

People v. Christmas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 26, 1979
72 A.D.2d 664; 422 N.Y.S.2d 893; 1979 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13818
People v. Christmas

Opinion of the Court

Judgment insofar as it imposes sentence unanimously modified in accordance with memorandum and, as modified, affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was sentenced on March 3, 1977 to five years’ probation on his plea of guilty to criminally negligent homicide. On January 30, 1979 defendant on his own admission was found guilty of violating the terms of his probation in that hé moved from his previous address without advising his probation officer. For such violation he was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 0 to 4 years. Under the circumstances the sentence is modified in the interest of justice as a matter of discretion to time served. (CPL 470.15, subd 3, par [c].) (Appeal from judgment of Erie Supreme Court&emdash;criminally negligent homicide.) Present&emdash;Cardamone, J. P., Simons, Hancock, Jr., Callahan and Moule, JJ.

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