Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2004

People v. Schwartz

People v. Schwartz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 9, 2004
12 A.D.3d 210; 783 N.Y.S.2d 806; 2004 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13181
People v. Schwartz

Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Margaret Clancy, J.), rendered June 6, 2003, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 4 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s various challenges to the admission of the results of an Intoxilyzer S-D2 test that the police conducted in the field are academic because the court specifically stated that it had not placed any “weight whatsoever” on those results and had *211completely disregarded them in arriving at its verdict (see People v Stevens, 158 AD2d 283 [1990], lv denied 75 NY2d 970 [1990]). In any event, there was overwhelming evidence of defendant’s guilt apart from the challenged field test, including a subsequent test establishing that defendant was driving while intoxicated.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur— Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Williams, Gonzalez and Catterson, JJ.

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