Opinion
February 6, 1989
Appeal from the County Court, Nassau County (Delin, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
In view of the nature and seriousness of the charged crime, the imposed sentence of eight years' to life imprisonment was neither harsh nor excessive nor an improvident exercise of the sentencing court's discretion (see, People v Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Moreover, the sentencing statute as applied to the defendant (see, Penal Law § 70.00), does not result in cruel and unusual punishment (see, People v Buffa, 139 A.D.2d 751; People v Buckmaster, 139 A.D.2d 659). Mollen, P.J., Brown, Kunzeman and Kooper, JJ., concur.