People v Griffin, 2024 NY Slip Op 02894 [227 AD3d 594]

May 28, 2024

Appellate Division, First Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Joseph Griffin, Appellant.

Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Jody Ratner of counsel), and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York (Nihara K. Choudhri of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Nathan Morgante of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry E. Warhit, J.), rendered April 16, 2019, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 12 years, followed by five years’ post-release supervision, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed. Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Moulton, Mendez, Rosado, O’Neill Levy, JJ..