People v Rivera
2025 NY Slip Op 05754 [242 AD3d 557]
October 16, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
David Rivera, Appellant.

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


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Crimes - Sentence - Waiver of Surcharges and Fees for Persons Less than 21 Years Old at Time of Crime

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwina G. Mendelson, J. at plea; Gayle P. Roberts, J. at sentencing), rendered July 19, 2019, convicting defendant, upon his pleas of guilty, of burglary in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 31/2 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 Chirinos, 190 AD3d 434 [1st Dept 2021]). We note that the People do not oppose this relief. Concur—Kern, J.P., Scarpulla, Pitt-Burke, O'Neill Levy, JJ.