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People v. Gonzalez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 25, 1984
102 A.D.2d 895 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)

Opinion

June 25, 1984


Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lentol, J.), rendered November 14, 1980, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing two consecutive indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 25 years to life. ¶ Judgment modified, on the law, by reducing the sentence imposed to two concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 25 years to life. As so modified, judgment affirmed. ¶ Although several of the prosecutor's remarks were better left unsaid, defendant failed to register an appropriate protest sufficient to preserve a question of law as to most of them (CPL 470.05, subd 2; People v. Nuccie, 57 N.Y.2d 818; People v. Santiago, 52 N.Y.2d 865), and we decline to exercise interest of justice jurisdiction inasmuch as we do not believe that they operated to deprive the defendant of a fair trial (CPL 470.15, subd 6, par [a]; cf. People v. Hopkins, 58 N.Y.2d 1079, 1083; People v. Galloway, 54 N.Y.2d 396; People v. Dukes, 97 A.D.2d 445; People v. Barbour, 96 A.D.2d 842). Under the circumstances of this case, however, and since the defendant was not convicted of the intentional murder counts, consecutive sentences are improper (see People v. Whitaker, 97 A.D.2d 555; People v. Braithwaite, 96 A.D.2d 865, mot for lv app granted 60 N.Y.2d 965). Titone, J.P., Lazer, Mangano and O'Connor, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Gonzalez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jun 25, 1984
102 A.D.2d 895 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)
Case details for

People v. Gonzalez

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ERNESTO GONZALEZ…

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

Date published: Jun 25, 1984

Citations

102 A.D.2d 895 (N.Y. App. Div. 1984)

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