People v. Velez

Judgment of resentence, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Efrain L. Alvarado, J.), rendered June 18, 2009, resentencing defendant to a term of nine years, with five years’ postrelease supervision, unanimously reversed, on the law, the resentence vacated, and the original sentence without postrelease supervision reinstated.

Defendant is entitled to relief under People v Williams (14 NY3d 198 [2010]), which invalidates the imposition of post-release supervision upon resentencing of defendants who have been released after completing their terms of imprisonment. When a person serving a determinate…