Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1989

People v. Acevedo

People v. Acevedo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided August 7, 1989
153 A.D.2d 565; 544 N.Y.S.2d 498; 1989 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10672
People v. Acevedo

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), imposed April 28, 1986, upon his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree, the sentence being an indeterminate term of from 5 to 15 years’ imprisonment.

Ordered that the sentence is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing it to an indeterminate term of from 3 to 9 years’ imprisonment.

The sentence was excessive to the extent indicated. Mollen, P. J., Bracken, Brown and Rubin, JJ., concur.

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