People v Gardner
2025 NY Slip Op 00408 [234 AD3d 621]
January 28, 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
Loryn Gardner, Appellant.

Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Isabel of counsel), for appellant.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, (Marsha D. Michael, J.), rendered July 15, 2019, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 12/3 to 5 years, 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, we vacate the surcharge and fees imposed on defendant at sentencing (see People v Cherif, 220 AD3d 543, 544 [1st Dept 2023], lv denied 40 NY3d 1079 [2023]; People v Chirinos, 190 AD3d 434 [1st Dept 2021]). We note that the People do not oppose this relief. Concur—Webber, J.P., Friedman, Scarpulla, Rosado, O'Neill Levy, JJ.