People v Ortiz

People v Ortiz 2008 NY Slip Op 03078 [50 AD3d 336] April 8, 2008 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Luis Ortiz, Appellant.

—[*1] Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Andres A. Munoz of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Cynthia A. Carlson of counsel), for respondent. Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Seth L. Marvin, J.), rendered March 13, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree, assault in the second degree, and attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning credibility and identification. Defendant was identified by the victim, who was acquainted with defendant and knew him by name. In addition, police officers saw defendant escaping from the victim's apartment and also made prompt, on-the-scene identifications. The inconsistencies in testimony cited by defendant were insignificant.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Lippman, P.J., Friedman, Catterson and Moskowitz, JJ.