Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2007

People v. Bristo

People v. Bristo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 20, 2007
38 A.D.3d 359; 830 N.Y.S.2d 898
People v. Bristo

Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Thomas Farber, J.), rendered June 15, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the DNA databank fee, and otherwise affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the jury’s determinations concerning credibility (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]).

As the People concede, since the crime was committed prior to the effective date of the legislation (Penal Law § 60.35 [1] [a] [v] [former (1) (e)]), providing for the imposition of a DNA databank fee, that fee should not have been imposed. Concur— Mazzarelli, J.P, Friedman, Buckley, Catterson and Malone, JJ.

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