People v. Abelo

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ralph A. Fabrizio, J.), rendered January 18, 2007, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 60 days with three years’ probation and a $1,500 fine, reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The conviction should be reversed and the matter remanded for a new trial on the ground that it was error to admit the notice of suspension mailed in 1992. As the trial court found, the People were required to demonstrate that “defendant…