People v. Bryant

2018 NY Slip Op 899

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: February 8, 2018
• Docket: 5647 1422/14
• Status: Published

Opinion

People v Bryant (2018 NY Slip Op 00899)

People v Bryant

2018 NY Slip Op 00899

Decided on February 8, 2018

Appellate Division, First Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on February 8, 2018
Renwick, J.P., Manzanet-Daniels, Andrias, Kapnick, Moulton, JJ.

5647 1422/14

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Sassony Bryant, Defendant-Appellant.

Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Eve Kessler of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Kelly L. Smith of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jill Konviser, J.), rendered November 10, 2015), convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of nine years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the prison component of the sentence to seven years, and otherwise affirmed.

We find the sentence excessive to the extent indicated.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: FEBRUARY 8, 2018

CLERK