Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jeffrey Lassen, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1974-03-11
Citations: 44 A.D.2d 572
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jeffrey Lassen, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 44
Pages: 572–572

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jeffrey Lassen, Appellant.

Opinion:
Appeal by defendant, as limited by his brief, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County, imposed November 1,1972, upon a conviction of criminally negligent homicide, upon a plea of guilty, the sentence being an indeterminate prison term not to exceed three years. Sentence modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to a period of probation and case remanded to the Criminal Term to fix the period and conditions of probation. In our opinion, defendant should have been sentenced to a period of probation. Gulotta, P. J., Hopkins, Latham, Shapiro and Cohalan, JJ., concur.