People v Valera
2025 NY Slip Op 01067 [235 AD3d 563]
February 25, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 2, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Pedro Valera, Appellant.

Caprice R. Jenerson, Office of The Appellate Defender, New York (Rachel Lindy of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Michael D. Tarbutton of counsel), for respondent.

An appeal having been taken to this Court by the above-named appellant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Felicia A. Mennin, J.), rendered September 16, 2020, and 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—Kern, J.P., Friedman, Kapnick, Rodriguez, O'Neill Levy, JJ.