People v. Cummings

2020 NY Slip Op 05523, 130 N.Y.S.3d 335, 187 A.D.3d 781

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 7, 2020
• Docket: Ind. No. 1212/16
• Status: Published

Opinion

People v Cummings (2020 NY Slip Op 05523)

People v Cummings

2020 NY Slip Op 05523

Decided on October 7, 2020

Appellate Division, Second 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 October 7, 2020 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
HECTOR D. LASALLE
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2017-07286
(Ind. No. 1212/16)

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

v

Horace Cummings, appellant.

Martin Geoffrey Goldberg, Franklin Square, NY, for appellant.

Madeline Singas, District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Tammy J. Smiley and Sarah S. Rabinowitz of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Robert A. McDonald, J.), rendered May 5, 2017, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, and driving while ability impaired by the combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80).

BALKIN, J.P., AUSTIN, LASALLE and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court