Case ID: ad2d_214/html/1026-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Rosemary Maye, Appellant.
    [627 NYS2d 594]
   Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed and matter remitted to Niagara County Court for sentencing in accordance with the following Memorandum: Defendant’s conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree (Penal Law § 220.06 [5]) is not supported by legally sufficient evidence that defendant had the requisite knowledge of the weight of the controlled substance (see, People v Ryan, 82 NY2d 497; see also, People v Maye, 206 AD2d 846). Defendant’s conviction must be reduced to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, the sentence imposed thereon vacated, and the matter remitted to Niagara County Court for sentencing on that conviction (see, People v Lawrence, 204 AD2d 969, lv granted 84 NY2d 937; see also, People v Maye, supra). (Appeal from Judgment of Niagara County Court, DiFlorio, J.—Criminal Possession Controlled Substance, 5th Degree.) Present—Denman, P. J., Green, Wesley, Doerr and Balio, JJ.