People v Johnson
2010 NY Slip Op 08213 [78 AD3d 1548]
November 12, 2010
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
As corrected through Wednesday, January 19, 2011


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Charles T.Johnson, Appellant.

[*1]The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Michael C. Walsh of counsel), fordefendant-appellant.

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

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (John L. Michalski, A.J.), renderedApril 22, 2009. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a nonjury verdict, of driving while intoxicated,a class E felony, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree and failure tostay within a single lane.

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

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, following a nonjury trial, offelony driving while intoxicated (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [3]; § 1193 [1] [c][former (i)]), aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree (§ 511 [3] [a][i]) and failure to stay within a single lane (§ 1128 [a]). Defendant failed to preserve for ourreview his contention that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the conviction because hismotion for a trial order of dismissal "was not specifically directed at the ground[s] advanced on appeal"(People v Vassar, 30 AD3d 1051,1052 [2006], lv denied 7 NY3d 796 [2006]; see People v Hawkins, 11 NY3d 484, 492 [2008]; People vGray, 86 NY2d 10, 19 [1995]). In any event, we reject that contention (see generally Peoplev Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.Present—Smith, J.P., Lindley, Sconiers, Pine and Gorski, JJ.


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