Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Clarence Prude, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-12-31
Citations: 2 A.D.3d 1320
Docket Number: Appeal No. 2
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Clarence Prude, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 1320–1321

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Clarence Prude, Appellant.
(Appeal No. 2.)
[768 NYS2d 912]

Opinion:
Appeal from an order of Monroe County Court (Marks, J.), dated August 28, 2001, which denied defendant's CPL 440.10 motion seeking to vacate the judgment of conviction.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from an order denying his CPL 440.10 motion seeking to vacate the judgment of conviction based on his contention that the prosecutor failed to disclose that a witness at his murder trial was granted partial immunity for his grand jury testimony and that the prosecutor affirmatively misrepresented that fact to the jury. County Court properly denied defendant's motion on the ground that sufficient facts appear on the record to permit review of defendant's contention on direct appeal (see CPL 440.10 [2] [b]). Defendant contends that he did not become aware of the alleged immunity agreement until years after his trial, when he obtained a copy of the witness's testimony at the separate trial of a codefendant. Defendant and the codefendant, however, were jointly indicted following a single grand jury presentation at which the witness testified. Those minutes would confirm the nature of the immunity that the witness received, allowing for review of defendant's present contention on direct appeal. Present— Pigott, Jr., P.J., Pine, Wisner, Hurlbutt and Gorski, JJ.