People v Goodson
2006 NY Slip Op 00251 [25 AD3d 444]
January 17, 2006
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 22, 2006


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Michael Goodson, Appellant.

[*1]Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J.), rendered March 30, 2004, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the court's determinations concerning credibility, including its rejection of defendant's implausible explanation of how he came to make a written confession (see People v Gaimari, 176 NY 84, 94 [1903]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Sullivan, Nardelli and McGuire, JJ.