People v Varela, 2017 NY Slip Op 07622 [155 AD3d 655]

November 1, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Rene Varela, Appellant.

Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, NY (William B. Carney of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Merri Turk-Lasky of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Latella, J.), imposed September 8, 2015, 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]). Eng, P.J., Hall, Sgroi, Maltese and Connolly, JJ., concur..