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People v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Dec 30, 2004
13 A.D.3d 1121 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)

Opinion

KA 03-00164.

December 30, 2004.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Penny M. Wolfgang, J.), rendered November 27, 2002. The judgment convicted defendant, after a nonjury trial, of attempted assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

Before: Green, J.P., Scudder, Gorski, Lawton and Hayes, JJ.


It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her after a nonjury trial of attempted assault in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 120.05) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (§ 265.02 [1]). Although defendant contends that Supreme Court erred in failing to conduct a hearing on that part of her pretrial motion to suppress a weapon recovered from a garbage can, the record establishes that defendant did not seek suppression of the weapon in her motion papers and instead sought suppression of only a red T-shirt. Defendant therefore failed to preserve her present contention for our review ( see CPL 470.05). Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant sought suppression of the weapon, we would nevertheless conclude that she abandoned her contention that the court erred in failing to conduct a hearing with respect to the weapon inasmuch as she did not obtain a ruling on her suppression motion, nor did she object when the weapon was admitted in evidence at trial ( see People v. Smikle, 1 AD3d 883, 884, lv denied 1 NY3d 634; People v. Boccaccio, 288 AD2d 898; see also People v. DiLenola, 245 AD2d 1132, 1133; see generally People v. Rodriguez, 50 NY2d 553). "In any event, in light of the inadequacy of defendant's moving papers, the failure to hold a hearing was not error" ( People v. O'Connor, 242 AD2d 908, 910, lv denied 91 NY2d 895; see CPL 710.60).

Defendant further contends that the court erred in finding her guilty of attempted assault in the second degree because it is not a lesser included offense of attempted murder in the second degree under Penal Law § 125.25 (1), with which she was charged. Although attempted assault in the second degree under subdivision (1) of Penal Law § 120.05 is a lesser included offense of attempted murder in the second degree under Penal Law § 125.25 (1) ( see People v. Cabassa, 79 NY2d 722, 729, cert denied sub nom. Lind v. New York, 506 US 1011; People v. Autry, 291 AD2d 896, lv denied 98 NY2d 672), defendant is correct that attempted assault in the second degree under subdivision (2) of Penal Law § 120.05 is not ( see People v. Martinez, 134 AD2d 458, 459, lv denied 70 NY2d 957). Here, the court failed to specify the subdivision of Penal Law § 120.05 on which it relied in finding defendant guilty of attempted assault in the second degree as a lesser included offense of attempted murder in the second degree. "Any error by the trial court in considering . . . a lesser crime arising out of the same criminal transaction as an indicted crime, that is not in fact a lesser included offense, is waived [where, as here, defendant fails to make a] timely objection" ( People v. Ford, 62 NY2d 275, 279). Indeed, the record establishes that, in affirmatively requesting that the court consider attempted assault in the second degree as a lesser included offense, defendant failed to specify the subdivision that she wished the court to consider ( see generally People v. Terry, 180 AD2d 700; People v. Corley, 162 AD2d 1020, lv denied 76 NY2d 892).


Summaries of

People v. Smith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Dec 30, 2004
13 A.D.3d 1121 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)
Case details for

People v. Smith

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JACQUELINE SMITH…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Dec 30, 2004

Citations

13 A.D.3d 1121 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)
786 N.Y.S.2d 879

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