People v McTaggart (2025 NYSlipOp 06914)
People v McTaggart
2025 NYSlipOp 06914 [244 AD3d 542]
December 11, 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
George McTaggart, Appellant.

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

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Faith DiTrolio of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), rendered May 4, 2022, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years followed by five years of postrelease supervision, 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.

We perceive no basis to reduce the five-year period of postrelease supervision.

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., Friedman, Rodriguez, Pitt-Burke, Rosado, JJ.