People v. Tuzzio

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered February 7, 1997, convicting him of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree and assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in sentencing the defendant as a persistent felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.10 [1]). The record reflects that the sentence was appropriate in that “the history and character of the defendant and the nature and…