People v. Harris ( 2024 )

People v Harris (2024 NY Slip Op 04623)

People v Harris

2024 NY Slip Op 04623

Decided on September 26, 2024

Appellate Division, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered: September 26, 2024
Before: Webber, J.P., Kern, Oing, González, Rosado, JJ.

Ind No. 928N/17 Appeal No. 2614 Case No. 2018-1964

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Raekwon Harris, Defendant-Appellant.

Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Laura Boyd of counsel), for appellant.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felicia A. Mennin, J.), rendered September 12, 2017, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 1½ years and one year followed by 1 year postrelease supervision, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the mandatory surcharge and fees imposed at sentencing, and otherwise affirmed.

Based on our own interest of justice powers, we vacate the mandatory surcharge and fees imposed on defendant at sentencing (People v Chirinos, 190 AD3d 434 [1st Dept 2021]). We note that the People do not oppose this relief.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: September 26, 2024