Opinion
2018-05778 Ind. No. 7175/13
01-08-2020
The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Messiah KEIZER, Appellant.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Anjali Biala of counsel), for appellant. Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Solomon Neubort of counsel; Marielle Burnett on the brief), for respondent.
Paul Skip Laisure, New York, N.Y. (Anjali Biala of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Solomon Neubort of counsel; Marielle Burnett on the brief), for respondent.
WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P., COLLEEN D. DUFFY, HECTOR D. LASALLE, VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (William M. Harrington, J.), imposed April 6, 2018, upon his conviction of assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, upon remittitur from this Court for resentencing (see People v. Keizer , 157 A.D.3d 903, 69 N.Y.S.3d 681 ).
ORDERED that the resentence is affirmed. " ‘The determination of whether to grant or deny youthful offender status rests within the sound discretion of the court and depends upon all the attending facts and circumstances of the case’ " ( People v. Dhillon , 157 A.D.3d 900, 900–901, 66 N.Y.S.3d 911, quoting People v. Hesterbey , 121 A.D.3d 1127, 1128, 994 N.Y.S.2d 421 ). Here, contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in declining to adjudicate the defendant a youthful offender (see People v. Jearel , 175 A.D.3d 565, 104 N.Y.S.3d 894 ; People v. Dhillon , 157 A.D.3d at 900, 66 N.Y.S.3d 911 ; People v. Alzandani , 156 A.D.3d 648, 66 N.Y.S.3d 296 ).
The resentence imposed was not excessive (see People v. Suitte , 90 A.D.2d 80, 455 N.Y.S.2d 675 ).
MASTRO, J.P., DUFFY, LASALLE and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.