People v Morales
2012 NY Slip Op 03949 [95 AD3d 681]
May 22, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 27, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Larry Morales, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (David Crow of counsel), and Christine L. Olson, New York, for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jared Wolkowitz of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J.), entered on or about June 18, 2010, which denied defendant's CPL 440.46 motion for resentencing, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in determining that substantial justice dictated the denial of defendant's motion. Defendant's very extensive criminal history, along with other negative factors in his background, outweighed evidence of his rehabilitation (see e.g. People v Correa, 83 AD3d 555 [2011], lv denied 17 NY3d 805 [2011]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Sweeny, Renwick, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.