People v Velasquez
2025 NY Slip Op 00171 [234 AD3d 501]
January 9, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 12, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Dereck Velasquez, Appellant.

Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Leanna J. Duncan of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Maria I. Wager of counsel), for respondent.

An appeal having been taken to this Court by the above-named appellant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Albert Lorenzo, J.), rendered March 24, 2023, said appeal having been argued by counsel for the respective parties, due deliberation having been had thereon, and finding the sentence not excessive, it is unanimously ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same is hereby affirmed. Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Scarpulla, Higgitt, Rosado JJ.