People v Stephens, 2021 NY Slip Op 05875 [198 AD3d 989]

October 27, 2021

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Pierre Stephens, Appellant.

Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Lynn W.L. Fahey of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Eva A. Oginar of counsel; Nicole Hsuan on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Martin P. Murphy, J.), imposed March 1, 2019, upon his plea of guilty, 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]). Rivera, J.P., Christopher, Wooten and Zayas, JJ., concur..