Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. George Olson, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2014-04-01
Citations: 116 A.D.3d 427
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v George Olson, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 427–428

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v George Olson, Appellant.
[982 NYS2d 760]

Opinion:
Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berk-man, J.), rendered October 27, 2010, convicting defendant, upon his pleas of guilty, of two counts of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to consecutive terms of SVz to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant's contention that he was convicted of two burglary counts for the same unlawful entry, thereby violating the rule against multiplicitous counts and the corresponding double jeopardy principle, is unpreserved and waived (see People v Gonzalez, 99 NY2d 76, 82 [2002]), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject defendant's claim on the merits. The record establishes that defendant made successive unlawful entries into two places, each constituting a separate and distinct "building" under the definition contained in Penal Law § 140.00 (2), and thus committed two separate crimes (see People v Felder, 2 AD3d 365 [1st Dept 2003], lv denied 2 NY3d 799 [2004]; see also People v Frazier, 16 NY3d 36, 41 [2010]). For similar reasons, we reject defendant's challenges to his waiver of indictment, and to the imposition of consecutive terms. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Andrias, Manzanet-Daniels and Kapnick, JJ.