People v Alvarez, 2024 NY Slip Op 00436 [223 AD3d 916]

January 31, 2024

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Rony Lopez Alvarez, Appellant.

Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Martin B. Sawyer of counsel), for appellant.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill and Ellen C. Abbot of counsel; McKenzie Franck on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Ushir Pandit-Durant, J.), imposed May 27, 2022, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Brathwaite Nelson, J.P., Christopher, Ford and Landicino, JJ., concur..