People v Thomas
2010 NY Slip Op 09809 [79 AD3d 1809]
December 30, 2010
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 16, 2011


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Juri P. Thomas, Appellant.

[*1] The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Susan C. Ministero of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Frank A. Sedita, III, District Attorney, Buffalo (Sarah E. Ryan of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court (Michael L. D'Amico, J.), rendered February 17, 2009. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 220.09 [1]). We reject the contention of defendant that he was denied effective assistance of counsel based on defense counsel's failure to move to suppress physical evidence. "Defendant has not shown that a suppression motion, if made, would have been successful and thus has failed to establish that defense counsel was ineffective in failing to make such a motion" (People v Borcyk, 60 AD3d 1489, 1490 [2009], lv denied 12 NY3d 923 [2009]). We further conclude that the sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present—Centra, J.P., Peradotto, Carni and Sconiers, JJ.