People v Cotter
2003 NY Slip Op 18604 [1 AD3d 939]
November 21, 2003
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 28, 2004


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Stephen Cotter, Appellant.

—Appeal from a judgment of Genesee County Court (Noonan, J.), entered October 17, 2001, convicting defendant after a jury trial of, inter alia, felony driving while intoxicated.

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

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of felony driving while intoxicated (Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 [3]; § 1193 [1] [c] [i]) and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree (§ 511 [3] [a]). Contrary to defendant's contentions, the conviction is supported by legally sufficient evidence (see People v Dugan, 188 AD2d 927, 928 [1992], lv denied 81 NY2d 839 [1993]), and the verdict is not against the weight of the evidence (see generally People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). Present—Green, J.P., Wisner, Scudder, Gorski and Lawton, JJ.