People v. Thomas

Full title: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JEFF THOMAS, Appellant

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Apr 25, 1996

88 N.Y.2d 821 (N.Y. 1996)

644 N.Y.S.2d 491

666 N.E.2d 1364

Opinion

Argued March 21, 1996

Decided April 25, 1996

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department.

Ronna Gordon-Galchus, Bayside, for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney of Queens County, Kew Gardens (Cheryl Hone and Steven J. Chananie of counsel), for respondent.

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

We affirm for the reasons stated by Presiding Justice Mangano at the Appellate Division ( 213 A.D.2d 73). We add that our decision in People v Smith ( 87 N.Y.2d 715) is not to the contrary. Smith stands for a different and more limited proposition involving waiver of inquiry with respect to pending criminal charges on an unrelated matter.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur.

Order affirmed in a memorandum.