Opinion
03-23-2017
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rodney WATTS, Defendant–Appellant.
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Arielle Reid of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Lee M. Pollack of counsel), for respondent.
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Arielle Reid of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Lee M. Pollack of counsel), for respondent.
Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J. at pleas; Daniel P. FitzGerald, J. at sentencing), rendered April 8, 2015, convicting defendant of two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2 ½ to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.
The indictments, charging defendant with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument under Penal Law § 170.25, in that he possessed counterfeit concert and New York Knicks tickets, were not jurisdictionally defective. As we determined in an alternative holding in ( People v. Davis, 127 A.D.3d 614, 9 N.Y.S.3d 23 [1st Dept.2015], lv. denied 26 N.Y.3d 928, 17 N.Y.S.3d 90, 38 N.E.3d 836 [2015] ), such tickets were written instruments that purported to "evidence, create, transfer, terminate or otherwise affect a legal right, interest, obligation or status" (Penal Law § 170.10[1] ). We have considered and rejected defendant's arguments for revisiting our determination in Davis.
TOM, J.P., FRIEDMAN, MAZZARELLI, KAPNICK, KAHN, JJ., concur.