People v. Rivers

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Clinton County (Ryan, J.), rendered August 13, 2013, which revoked defendant’s probation and imposed a sentence of imprisonment.

In 2005, defendant was convicted of two counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree and was sentenced to five years of probation. He was subsequently charged with violating the conditions of his probation after he went to Texas on a one-month pass and neither returned nor reported to his probation officer. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was eventually returned to New York in 2013. Defendant admitted to the…