People v Ortega

Holding The court affirmed the judgment and declined to review unpreserved challenges to probation conditions, finding them reasonably necessary and appropriate given the defendant’s history of substance abuse and the victim’s order of protection. The court also denied the request to modify the jurisdictional condition to allow visits to the defendant’s son, who lives with the protected victim.

The court’s words

The son lives with his half-sister, the victim of the instant offense, who has a permanent order of protection against defendant

2026 NY Slip Op 06022, at the official text

The condition requiring defendant to keep a curfew is also "appropriate to ameliorate the conduct which gave rise to the offense and to prevent defendant's incarceration"

2026 NY Slip Op 06022, at the official text