People v Espinal
2022 NY Slip Op 05668 [209 AD3d 475]
October 11, 2022
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 30, 2022


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Luis Espinal, Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Bryan S. Furst of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Kevin McGrath, J., at plea, Laurie Peterson, J., at sentencing), rendered September 26, 2019, convicting defendant, of three counts of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him to five years' probation, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the surcharge and fees imposed at sentencing, and otherwise affirmed.

Based on our own interest of justice powers and the People's consent, we vacate the surcharge and fees imposed at sentencing (see People v Chirinos, 190 AD3d 434 [1st Dept 2021]). Concur—Gische, J.P., Kern, Gesmer, Rodriguez, Pitt, JJ.