Court Opinion

ID: 5981635
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 08:19:45.159032+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:49:28.402166
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Ellerin, J. P., dissents in a memorandum as follows:
I would grant defendant’s motion to file a supplemental brief and hold the appeal in abeyance pending briefing of his argument that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to prove the requisite scienter for the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree (People v Ryan, 82 NY2d 497). Contrary to the majority, I believe that defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure to prove a prima facie case preserved this issue for review as a matter of law (see, People v Kilpatrick, 143 AD2d 1) and that defendant has therefore demonstrated the existence of a viable appellate issue which was not included in his original brief.
The unpublished Decision and Order of this Court entered herein on August 4, 1994 is hereby recalled and vacated.