People v Rosario
2007 NYSlipOp 06055
July 10, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, September 12, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Rafael Rosario, Appellant.

[*1]James D. Licata, New City, N.Y. (Lois Cappelletti of counsel), for appellant.

Michael E. Bongiorno, District Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Argiro Kosmetatos and Elana L. Yeger of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a resentence of the County Court, Rockland County (Kelly, J.), imposed August 5, 2005, upon his conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty.

Ordered that the resentence is affirmed.

While the Drug Law Reform Act permits the defendant to appeal his resentence on the basis that it was excessive (see L 2004, ch 738, § 23), the defendant expressly accepted the court's resentence offer and, thus, has no basis to now complain that the resentence was excessive (see People v Guzman, 37 AD3d 615, 616 [2007]; Penal Law § 70.71 [3] [b] [i]). Rivera, J.P., Spolzino, Fisher, Lifson and Dickerson, JJ., concur.


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