People v Hernandez, 2018 NY Slip Op 05602 [164 AD3d 520]

August 1, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Guadalupe Hernandez, Appellant.

Laurette D. Mulry, Riverhead, NY (Felice B. Milani of counsel), for appellant.

Timothy D. Sini, District Attorney, Riverhead, NY (Grazia DiVincenzo of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Timothy Mazzei, J.), rendered August 23, 2016, convicting him of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree (two counts), and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant failed to demonstrate that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel. The record as a whole demonstrates that counsel provided the defendant with meaningful representation ( see People v Caban , 5 NY3d 143 [2005]; People v Benevento , 91 NY2d 708, 712-713 [1998]; People v Baldi , 54 NY2d 137 [1981]; People v Lancaster , 127 AD3d 1235 [2015]).

The sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80, 95 [1982]). Roman, J.P., Cohen, Miller and Maltese, JJ., concur..