People v Martinez
2008 NY Slip Op 07933 [55 AD3d 753]
October 14, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Mario Martinez, Appellant.

[*1] Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Michelle Mogal of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Jodi L. Mandel of counsel; John Paul DeVerna on the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), dated June 22, 2006, pursuant to the Drug Law Reform Act of 2004 (L 2004, ch 738, § 23), imposed after a hearing, the resentence being concurrent determinate prison terms of 20 years and a period of postrelease supervision of 5 years, upon his conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict.

Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the resentence imposed improperly penalized him for exercising his right to a trial is unpreserved for appellate review, since he did not set forth the issue on the record at the time of resentencing (see People v Hargroves, 27 AD3d 765, 765-766 [2006]). In any event, the contention is without merit (id.; see People v Durkin, 132 AD2d 668 [1987]; see also People v Martinez, 289 AD2d 259, 259-260 [2001]; People v Bellilli, 270 AD2d 355 [2000]). The resentence imposed was not otherwise excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Lifson, J.P., Ritter, Miller and Balkin, JJ., concur.