| People v Rivers |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 05109 [241 AD3d 1592] |
| September 24, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Stephen Rivers, Appellant. |
Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (William Kastin of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Avshalom Yotam of counsel; Hannah Thomas on the memorandum), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (John T. Hecht, J.), imposed August 8, 2023, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.
Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Connolly, J.P., Miller, Warhit, Ventura and Quirk, JJ., concur.