People v. Byrd
| Citation | 105 N.Y.S.3d 208,174 A.D.3d 1133 |
| Decision Date | 18 July 2019 |
| Docket Number | 109264 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rashad BYRD, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
174 A.D.3d 1133
105 N.Y.S.3d 208
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent,
v.
Rashad BYRD, Appellant.
109264
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York.
Calendar Date: June 3, 2019
Decided and Entered: July 18, 2019
Rural Law Center of New York, Castleton (Kelly L. Egan of counsel), for appellant.
Gary M. Pasqua, District Attorney, Canton (Karen Fisher McGee, New York State Prosecutors Training Institute, Inc., Albany, of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Devine and Aarons, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Devine, J.
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the County Court of St. Lawrence County (Champagne, J.), entered December 15, 2016, which denied defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate the judgment convicting him of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree.
In 2017, this Court affirmed a judgment convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree ( 152 A.D.3d 984, 59 N.Y.S.3d 539 [2017] ). The conviction stemmed from baggies of crack cocaine recovered from defendant's rental vehicle after a surveilled drug transaction between defendant and another individual. Following the stop of the vehicle, defendant told officers that he was staying in a specific hotel room, that the drugs recovered from his vehicle were for his personal use and that he traded crack cocaine for marihuana that the other individual had purchased. Officers obtained a search warrant for the hotel room and discovered, among other things, a digital scale. There was no dispute at the later suppression hearing that a valid warrant had been obtained, defense counsel's efforts to suppress the items found in the room on other grounds was unsuccessful, and the digital scale formed part of the People's case at trial.
During the pendency of his direct appeal from the judgment of conviction, defendant made a pro se motion pursuant to CPL 440.10 to vacate the judgment of conviction upon the ground that, as is relevant here, he was denied the effective assistance of
counsel. County Court denied the motion without a hearing, and defendant, with this Court's permission, appeals.
We affirm. Defendant argues that, at a minimum, his motion should not have been denied without a hearing. "Although a hearing on a CPL 440.10 motion is not always necessary, a hearing is required where the defendant bases the motion upon nonrecord facts that are material and, if established, would entitle the defendant to relief" ( People v. Monteiro , 149 A.D.3d 1155, 1156, 51 N.Y.S.3d 658 [2017] [citations omitted]; see CPL 440.30[5] ; People v. Pabon , 157 A.D.3d 1057, 1058, 69 N.Y.S.3d 192 [2018], lv denied 31 N.Y.3d 986, 77 N.Y.S.3d 663, 102 N.E.3d 440 [2018] ). Defendant faults his suppression hearing counsel and his subsequently appointed trial counsel for failing to raise a colorable suppression issue related to the fact that another individual had rented the hotel room...
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