People v. Garcia

*476Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered October 26, 2007, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V2 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, the plea vacated and the matter remanded for further proceedings.

The court’s failure to inform defendant at his plea allocution that he would be subject to a period of postrelease supervision requires reversal of the conviction (People v Catu, 4 NY3d 242 [2005]). In pleading guilty,…