People v Cruz (2025 NYSlipOp 06822)
People v Cruz
2025 NYSlipOp 06822 [244 AD3d 498]
December 9, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 4, 2026


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Armando Cruz, Appellant.

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

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Cynthia A. Carlson 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 (Marsha D. Michael, J.), rendered August 31, 2022, 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—Webber, J.P., Scarpulla, Rodriguez, Higgitt, Chan, JJ.