73 A.D.2d 921 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1980
Appeal by defendant from an amended judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered January 12, 1978, which, upon revoking a previously imposed sentence of probation, imposed a sentence of imprisonment. Amended judgment reversed, on the law, and case remanded to the Criminal Term, for further proceedings consistent herewith. On December 10, 1976 defendant was indicted for the crime of manslaughter in the first degree. The charge stemmed from defendant’s killing of her boyfriend, Darryl Braun. In satisfaction of the indictment defendant pleaded guilty on September 26, 1977 to the crime of manslaughter in the second degree. In accepting the plea, Mr. Justice Mirabile told defendant that he would place her on probation for five years provided the probation report permitted him to do so. He also told her that if for any reason he could not keep the promise he would permit her to withdraw her plea. Subsequently, on December 6, 1977, defendant was sentenced to five years’ probation provided she undergo psychiatric treatment at Brooklyn State Hospital (Kingsboro) and remain there unless and until given permission to leave by the court. The next day Kingsboro refused to accept defendant as a patient, adopting the position that she was not psychiatrically ill and that there was no basis for holding her. Defendant was transferred to Kings County Hospital Psychiatric Division (Kings County) on December 9, 1977, but it too refused to accept her as a patient on the same ground, that she was not
(William Heffernan, Assistant District Attorney, Donna L. Bascom, Legal Aid Society—Assistant Appellate Counsel and Barbara Sossen, Legal Aid Society Social Worker.)