People v Long
2008 NY Slip Op 09097 [56 AD3d 685]
November 18, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 7, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Anthony Long, Appellant.

[*1] Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Michelle Mogal of counsel), for appellant, and appellant pro se.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove and Keith Dolan of counsel; John P. Buza on the brief), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldberg, J.), rendered June 27, 2005, convicting him of attempted robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and vacating the sentence imposed thereon; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (see Penal Law § 265.02 [former (4)]) must be vacated as that count of the indictment had been dismissed by another judge prior to trial and was later mistakenly considered by the Supreme Court (see People v Flores, 43 AD3d 955 [2007]; People v Romero, 309 AD2d 953 [2003]; People v Smiley, 303 AD2d 425 [2003]).

The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are [*2]without merit. Spolzino, J.P., Florio, McCarthy and Dickerson, JJ., concur.