Opinion
2011-09-15
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent,v.Louis McMORRIS, Appellant.
Thomas J. Carr, Albany, for appellant.Kevin C. Kortright, District Attorney, Fort Edward (Katherine G. Henley of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Washington County (McKeighan, J.), rendered November 7, 2008, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree.
Defendant, an inmate, was charged in an indictment with promoting prison contraband in the first degree after he was found to be in possession of a sharpened piece of plexiglass with a tape handle. He subsequently pleaded guilty to attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree. In accordance with the plea agreement, he was sentenced as a second felony offender to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison, to run consecutively to the prison term he was then serving. This appeal followed.
Appellate counsel seeks to be relieved of his assignment on the ground that there are no nonfrivolous issues to be raised on appeal. Based upon our review of the record and counsel's brief, we agree. Therefore, the judgment is affirmed and counsel's application for leave to withdraw is granted ( see People v. Cruwys, 113 A.D.2d 979, 980, 493 N.Y.S.2d 653 [1985], lv. denied 67 N.Y.2d 650, 499 N.Y.S.2d 1046, 490 N.E.2d 562 [1986]; see generally People v. Stokes, 95 N.Y.2d 633, 722 N.Y.S.2d 217, 744 N.E.2d 1153 [2001] ).
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, and application to be relieved of assignment granted.
ROSE, J.P., LAHTINEN, McCARTHY, GARRY and EGAN JR., JJ., concur.