People v. Snyder

• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division
• Citation: People v. Snyder, 29 AD3d 310, 813 N.Y.S.2d 433, 2006 NY Slip Op 3457 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
• Decision Date: 02 May 2006
• Docket Number: 7932.
• Parties: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RODNEY SNYDER, Appellant.

29 A.D.3d 310

813 N.Y.S.2d 433

2006 NY Slip Op 03457

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RODNEY SNYDER, Appellant.

7932.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 2, 2006.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ira R. Globerman, J.), rendered March 15, 2002, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree (two counts), endangering the welfare of a child and criminal contempt in the first degree (two counts), and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 18 years for the attempted murder conviction, 7 years for the assault conviction, and 1 year each for the criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child convictions, to run consecutively to consecutive terms of 1 1/3 to 4 years for the contempt convictions, unanimously affirmed.

The court was not obligated, sua sponte, to order a CPL article 730 examination (see Pate v Robinson, 383 US 375 [1966]; People v Tortorici, 92 NY2d 757 [1999], cert denied 528 US 834 [1999]; People v Morgan, 87 NY2d 878 [1995]). The court was familiar with defendant after observing him during...