Opinion
02-23-2017
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Tyshen MATTHEWS, Also Known as Tysheen Moore, Also Known as Nitty, Appellant.
Thomas F. Garner, Middleburgh, for appellant. Kathleen B. Hogan, District Attorney, Lake George (Emilee B. Davenport of counsel), for respondent.
Thomas F. Garner, Middleburgh, for appellant.
Kathleen B. Hogan, District Attorney, Lake George (Emilee B. Davenport of counsel), for respondent.
Before: McCARTHY, J.P., EGAN JR., LYNCH, CLARK and MULVEY, JJ.
LYNCH, J.Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Washington County (McKeighan, J.), rendered January 3, 2014, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, burglary in the second degree, petit larceny and endangering the welfare of a child.
In June 2013, defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, burglary in the second degree, petit larceny, conspiracy in the fourth degree and endangering the welfare of a child. County Court dismissed the charge of conspiracy in the fourth degree as jurisdictionally defective and, following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of the remaining charges. Defendant was thereafter sentenced to an aggregate prison term of 20 years, followed by five years of postrelease supervision. He now appeals.
Defendant argues that County Court failed to rule on that aspect of his omnibus motion seeking inspection of the grand jury minutes and dismissal of the indictment. As the People concede, the record is devoid of a ruling upon the motion to inspect, as is required by CPL 210.30(5). Accordingly, we remit the matter to County Court for a ruling on the record with respect to this aspect of defendant's omnibus motion (see People v. Blair, 121 A.D.3d 1570, 1571–1572, 994 N.Y.S.2d 215 [2014] ; People v. Stewart, 111 A.D.3d 1395, 1396, 974 N.Y.S.2d 858 [2013] ; People v. Jones, 103 A.D.3d 1215, 1217, 962 N.Y.S.2d 524 [2013], lv. dismissed 21 N.Y.3d 944, 968 N.Y.S.2d 6, 990 N.E.2d 140 [2013] ).
There is also no indication in the record that County Court ruled on defendant's motion challenging the existence of probable cause to justify his warrantless arrest. Although defendant did not raise this issue in his omnibus motion or prior to the conclusion of proof in the Wade/Huntley hearing, he did raise it in what appears to be defense counsel's written summation after the Wade/Huntley hearing. The People opposed defendant's challenge to his warrantless arrest in their written summation, but County Court did not resolve the issue in its decision following the Wade/Huntley hearing, and there is no indication in the record that the court ruled on it at a later time. Defendant directed County Court's attention to the absence of a ruling on his motion at a November 2013 pretrial conference and again at the start of trial, to which County Court mistakenly stated that the issue had been resolved in its decision on the Wade/Huntley hearing. Inasmuch as the record does not reflect that County Court ruled on defendant's motion challenging his warrantless arrest, despite defendant's repeated attempts to alert County Court to the absent ruling (compare People v. Bigelow, 68 A.D.3d 1127, 1128, 892 N.Y.S.2d 449 [2009], lv. denied 14 N.Y.3d 797, 899 N.Y.S.2d 131, 925 N.E.2d 935 [2010] ; People v. Harley, 253 A.D.2d 699, 699, 679 N.Y.S.2d 99 [1998], lv. denied 92 N.Y.2d 1032, 684 N.Y.S.2d 497, 707 N.E.2d 452 [1998] ), the matter must also be remitted to County Court for it to set forth on the record or in a written decision its determination on such motion (see CPL 710.60[6] ; People v. Mabeus, 47 A.D.3d 1073, 1074, 850 N.Y.S.2d 664 [2008] ; People v. Brown, 263 A.D.2d 613, 614, 693 N.Y.S.2d 297 [1999], lv. denied 94 N.Y.2d 877, 705 N.Y.S.2d 9, 726 N.E.2d 486 [2000] ). Pending County Court's determinations upon remittal, we withhold decision on the remaining issues raised by defendant.
ORDERED that the decision is withheld, and matter remitted to the County Court of Washington County for further proceedings not inconsistent with this Court's decision.
McCARTHY, J.P., EGAN JR., CLARK and MULVEY, JJ., concur.