People v Betancourt
2017 NY Slip Op 00418 [146 AD3d 621]
January 19, 2017
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 1, 2017


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Dexter Betancourt, Also Known as Dester Bentancourt, Appellant.

Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Heidi Bota of counsel), for appellant.

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

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Solomon, J.), rendered May 16, 2014, unanimously affirmed.

Although we do not find that defendant made a valid waiver of the right to appeal, we perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Renwick, Richter, Moskowitz and Kapnick, JJ.