PEOPLE v. STEVENS

2014-04797, Ind. No. 1086/10.

134 A.D.3d 1057 (2015)

20 N.Y.S.3d 906

2015 NY Slip Op 09444

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMEL STEVENS, Appellant.

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

Decided December 23, 2015.


Ordered that the resentence is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the determinate term of imprisonment from 22 years to 17 years; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that he was penalized for exercising his right to trial is without merit (see People v Melendez, 71 A.D.3d 1166, 1167 [2010]). The defendant's contention that the

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