Opinion
Submitted October 10, 2000.
November 6, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Leavitt, J.), rendered September 14, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), reckless endangerment in the first degree, and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.
Mitchell I. Weingarden, White Plains, N.Y., for appellant.
Jeanine Pirro, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Karen D. Herbert and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.
Before: GUY JAMES MANGANO, P.J., DAVID S. RITTER, SONDRA MILLER, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that the Trial Judge failed to conduct an adequate inquiry into the basis for his waiver of a jury trial is unpreserved for appellate review (see, CPL 470.05; People v. Magnano, 77 N.Y.2d 941, cert denied 502 U.S. 864; People v. Johnson, 51 N.Y.2d 986; People v. Ospina, 192 A.D.2d 680, 681; People v. Pelaccio, 159 A.D.2d 734, 735). In any event, the defendant's written waiver of his right to a jury trial was signed and acknowledged in open court (see, CPL 320.10; People v. Magnano, supra; People v. Pelaccio, supra), and the Trial Judge conducted a sufficient inquiry to ensure that the defendant understood the consequences of his actions (see, People v. Pelaccio, supra).