People v Keitt
2008 NY Slip Op 00045 [47 AD3d 413]
January 3, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 12, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Jerome Keitt, Appellant.

—[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Jody Ratner of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Mark D. Marino of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William A. Wetzel, J.), rendered November 20, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court's Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see People v Hayes, 97 NY2d 203 [2002]; People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 458-459 [1994]). The court imposed appropriate limitations on the prosecutor's inquiry into defendant's extensive criminal record.

We perceive no basis to reduce the sentence. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Nardelli, Buckley and Catterson, JJ.