People v Novas
2024 NY Slip Op 00792 [41 NY3d 956]
February 15, 2024
Court of Appeals
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 24, 2024


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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Danny Novas, Appellant.

Argued January 9, 2024; decided February 15, 2024

People v Novas, 204 AD3d 613, affirmed.

APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City (Andrew Stambouldis and Chana Zuckier of counsel), and Caprice R. Jenerson, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Rachel Bond, Steven C. Wu and Beth Fisch Cohen of counsel), for respondent.

{**41 NY3d at 958} OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People, "there is a valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences from which a rational jury could have found" that defendant violated Vehicle and Traffic Law § 600 (2) (a) (People v Rouse, 34 NY3d 269, 274 [2019]).

Chief Judge Wilson and Judges Rivera, Garcia, Singas, Cannataro, Troutman and Halligan concur.