People v Deguzman, 2021 NY Slip Op 05713 [198 AD3d 916]

October 20, 2021

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Richard Deguzman, Appellant.

Janet E. Sabel, New York, NY (Susan Epstein of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Camille O’Hara Gillespie of counsel; Alastair Allen on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Donald Leo, J., at plea; Martin P. Murphy, J., at sentence), imposed October 3, 2019, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Mastro, J.P., Hinds-Radix, Brathwaite Nelson and Genovesi, JJ., concur..