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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v William Hafner, Appellant.
    [605 NYS2d 487]
   Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Harrigan, J.), rendered October 19, 1992, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of sexual abuse in the first degree.

We reject defendant’s contention that his negotiated sentence of to years’ imprisonment for sexually abusing a child is unduly excessive. Defendant was not given the harshest allowable sentence for his crime and the fact that he may have tested positive for the HIV virus is not a sufficient reason, standing alone, for us to disturb his sentence.

Mikoll, J. P., Yesawich Jr., Crew III, White and Mahoney, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.