The People v. Karl Chu-Joi

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant Chu-Joi * appeals from an order of the Appellate Division, Second Department, which affirmed Supreme Court’s denial, without a hearing, of defendant’s CPL 440.20 motion to set aside his sentence. Defendant contends that his allegations and supporting documents establish he was 15 years old at the time of the offense and therefore should have been sentenced as a juvenile offender not as an adult. In support of his motion, defendant, who was born in Peru, attached a copy of his baptismal and birth…