PEOPLE v. RIOS (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

The PEOPLE, etc., respondent, v. Marvin Villalta RIOS, also known as Marvin Villalta Escobar, appellant.

2023-04620

Decided: March 19, 2025

ROBERT J. MILLER, J.P., LINDA CHRISTOPHER, CARL J. LANDICINO, PHILLIP HOM, JJ.

Matthew W. Brissenden, Garden City, NY, for appellant. Anne T. Donnelly, District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Cristin N. Connell of counsel; Matthew C. Frankel on the brief), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Philippe Solages, Jr., J.), rendered April 19, 2023, convicting him of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree, driving while intoxicated in violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192(2), driving while intoxicated in violation of Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192(3), and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80, 455 N.Y.S.2d 675).

The People's remaining contention is without merit.

MILLER, J.P., CHRISTOPHER, LANDICINO and HOM, JJ., concur.

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