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People v. Hawkins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 12, 2000
278 A.D.2d 338 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

Opinion

Argued October 26, 2000

December 12, 2000.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered June 25, 1998, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent determinate terms of 25 years imprisonment on the conviction of attempted murder in the second degree and 15 years imprisonment on the conviction of assault in the first degree, and to consecutive terms of 7 years imprisonment on the conviction of assault in the second degree, and an indeterminate term of 2 to 4 years imprisonment on the conviction of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree, and one year imprisonment on each of the convictions of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.

Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Winston McIntosh of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Karol B. Mangum of counsel), for respondent.

Before: CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, SONDRA MILLER, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reversing the conviction of assault in the second degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment, and by making all sentences run concurrently with the exception of that imposed on the conviction of unlawful imprisonment in the first degree; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant requested only that the court provide an adverse inference charge with respect to an alleged Rosario violation. Therefore, his present contention that the court should have conducted an inquiry to ascertain the existence of alleged Rosario material is unpreserved for appellate review (see, People v. Mercado, 265 A.D.2d 177; People v. Sam, 262 A.D.2d 665; cf., People v. Farrell, 207 A.D.2d 560; People v. Rosario, 9 N.Y.2d 286), and we decline to review it in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see, People v. Lorenzo, 272 A.D.2d 184; People v. Pichado, 268 A.D.2d 346). As the People correctly concede, the defendant's conviction for assault in the second degree should have been dismissed as a lesser-included offense of assault in the first degree (see, People v. Garofalo, 192 A.D.2d 619). Similarly, the Supreme Court erred in imposing consecutive sentences on the two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree (see, People v. Lyde, 258 A.D.2d 669).

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.


Summaries of

People v. Hawkins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 12, 2000
278 A.D.2d 338 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
Case details for

People v. Hawkins

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE, ETC., RESPONDENT, v. GARY HAWKINS, APPELLANT. (IND. NO…

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

Date published: Dec 12, 2000

Citations

278 A.D.2d 338 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
718 N.Y.S.2d 194