People v. Rivers
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Opinion
People v Rivers (2025 NY Slip Op 05109)
| People v Rivers |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 05109 |
| Decided on September 24, 2025 |
| 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 September 24, 2025 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P.
ROBERT J. MILLER
BARRY E. WARHIT
LOURDES M. VENTURA
SUSAN QUIRK, JJ.
2023-07311
(Ind. No. 71536/23)
v
Stephen Rivers, appellant.
Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (William Kastin of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Avshalom Yotam of counsel; Hannah Thomas on the memorandum), for respondent.
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (John T. Hecht, J.), imposed August 8, 2023, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.
ORDERED that the sentence is affirmed.
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80).
CONNOLLY, J.P., MILLER, WARHIT, VENTURA and QUIRK, JJ., concur.
ENTER:Darrell M. Joseph
Clerk of the Court
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