PEOPLE v. LYNCH


61 A.D.2d 723 (1978)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominick Byrne, Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 10, 1978


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maloney, Viviani & Higgins (Walter J. Higgins, Jr., of counsel), for Mel P. Lynch, appellant.

Peter E. De Blasio for Dominick Byrne, appellant.

Carl A. Vergari, District Attorney (Janet Cunard of counsel), for respondent.

DAMIANI, J. P., SUOZZI and RABIN, JJ., concur.


SHAPIRO, J.

Defendants Lynch and Byrne were each convicted in the Supreme Court, Westchester County, of grand larceny in the first degree, upon a jury verdict. The court, on January 6, 1977, imposed a sentence of 4 to 12 years on defendant Lynch and 3 to 9 years on defendant Byrne. In this consolidated appeal, each defendant claims that the sentence imposed upon him was excessive; the Byrne appeal also brings...

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