People v. McCray

• Decision Date: 01 December 2021
• Docket Number: 2018-04762,Ind. No. 1157/16
• Citation: 2021 NY Slip Op 06707
• Parties: The People, etc., respondent, v. Yuhura McCray, appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court

2021 NY Slip Op 06707

The People, etc., respondent, v. Yuhura McCray, appellant.

No. 2018-04762

Ind. No. 1157/16

Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

December 1, 2021

Submitted - November 1, 2021

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Alan Katz, Garden City Park, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se.

Joyce A. Smith, Acting District Attorney, Mineola, NY (Daniel Bresnahan and Hilda Mortensen of counsel), for respondent.

LEONARD B. AUSTIN, J.P. ROBERT J. MILLER PAUL WOOTEN JOSEPH A. ZAYAS, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Teresa K. Corrigan, J.), rendered April 6, 2018 convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial (Christopher G. Quinn, J.), without a hearing, of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to controvert a search warrant.

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court properly denied, without a hearing, that branch of his omnibus motion which was to controvert a search warrant (see People v Tambe, 71 N.Y.2d 492, 505; People v Kelly, 151 A.D.3d 751, 752).

Although the defendant contends that he was denied access to various applications for eavesdropping and wiretap warrants (see e.g. People v Lambey, 176 A.D.3d 1232, 1234), the People demonstrated that these materials were provided to the defendant's counsel shortly after the defendant's arraignment in accordance with CPL 700.70. There is no indication that the defendant's new counsel made any effort to obtain such materials from the defendant's prior counsel, and the defendant otherwise failed to demonstrate that the People were obligated to provide these materials to his new counsel (see People v Johnson, 155 A.D.2d 339, 339; see generally People v Clergeot, 28 Misc.3d 87, 89 [App Term, 2d Dept]).

The defendant's contention that the Supreme Court erred in granting the People's application for cell-site location information and other related materials is unpreserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05[2]), and we decline to reach it in the exercise of our interest of justice jurisdiction (see People v Cunningham, 194 A.D.3d 954, 956; People v Colon, 187 A.D.3d 647; People v Adams, 186 A.D.3d 842, 843).

The defendant waived his contention, raised in his pro se supplemental brief, that he was deprived of the right to testify before the grand jury by failing to move to dismiss the indictment within five days after his arraignment thereon (see CPL 190.50[5][c]; People v Brown, 193 A.D.3d 875, 876; People v Reeves, 180 A.D.3d 936, 938; People v McTerrell, 174 A.D.3d 648, 649). To the extent the defendant raises, in his pro se supplemental brief, a separate jurisdictional challenge to the grand jury proceedings, it is without merit (see generally CPL 10.20[1][a]). The defendant's remaining challenge to the grand jury proceedings, raised in his pro se supplemental brief, was forfeited by the defendant's p 17 A.D.3d 931, 932).

The defendant's contention, raised in his...