People v Rivera
2025 NY Slip Op 01327
Decided on March 11, 2025
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided and Entered: March 11, 2025
Before: Webber, J.P., Kapnick, González, Scarpulla, Michael, JJ.

Ind. No. 71160-21|Appeal No. 3851|Case No. 2023-01409|

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

v

James Rivera, Defendant-Appellant.




Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Phoenix Rice-Johnson of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Aidan Sanchez of counsel), for respondent.



An appeal having been taken to this Court by the above-named appellant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Marcus Martin, J.), rendered February 24, 2023,

Said appeal having been argued by counsel for the respective parties, due deliberation having been had thereon, and finding the sentence not excessive,

It is unanimously ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same is hereby affirmed.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: March 11, 2025

Counsel for appellant is referred to § 606.5, Rules of the Appellate Division, First Department.