People v. Butler ( 2024 )

People v Butler (2024 NY Slip Op 04567)

People v Butler

2024 NY Slip Op 04567

Decided on September 25, 2024

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 25, 2024 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
LINDA CHRISTOPHER
CARL J. LANDICINO, JJ.

2023-05435
(Ind. No. 71635/22)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,

v

Jerald Butler, appellant.

Patricia Pazner, New York, NY (Alexa Askari of counsel), for appellant.

Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, NY (Johnnette Traill and Ellen C. Abbot of counsel; Miles Palminteri on the memorandum), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Toni M. Cimino, J.), imposed May 9, 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., CHAMBERS, CHRISTOPHER and LANDICINO, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court