People v. Hardy, KA 06-00943.
| Decision Date | 14 March 2008 |
| Docket Number | KA 06-00943. |
| Citation | 49 A.D.3d 1232,856 N.Y.S.2d 324,2008 NY Slip Op 02309 |
| Parties | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. J.W. HARDY, JR., Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Appeal from a judgment of the Orleans County Court (Robert C. Noonan, J.), rendered March 2, 2006. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of escape in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:On appeal from a judgment convicting him, upon a jury verdict, of escape in the second degree (Penal Law § 205.10 [2]), defendant contends that the conviction is not supported by legally sufficient evidence because he was not in custody when he fled the courthouse. We reject that contention. During an appearance before County Court while released on bail and awaiting sentencing on his conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, defendant's bail was increased by the court and defendant was handcuffed by sheriff's deputies and seated in a hallway of the courthouse. Defendant fled the courthouse while the sheriff's deputies waited for the court clerk to prepare a securing order committing defendant to the Sheriff's custody. We conclude that defendant was in custody for the purposes of section 205.10 (2) at the time that he escaped from the courthouse because, even though the securing order had not yet been signed by the court, he was under "restraint by a public servant pursuant to ... an order of a court" (§ 205.00 [2]).
Defendant waived his contention that he was wrongfully denied the opportunity to appear before the grand jury by failing to move to dismiss the indictment within five days following his arraignment (see CPL 190.50 [5] [c]; People v Beyor, 272 AD2d 929, 930 [2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 832 [2000]). Contrary to defendant's further contention, defense counsel's failure to make a timely motion to dismiss the indictment on that ground, "`without more, is insufficient to demonstrate ineffective assistance, particularly where[, as here, the] defendant fail[s] to demonstrate an absence of strategic or legitimate reasons for counsel's failure to pursue [that] course of action'" (People v Hibbard, 27 AD3d 1196, 1197 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 790 [2006]). Indeed, the record establishes that defense counsel identified specific strategic reasons for declining to move to dismiss the...
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