People v Bald
2007 NY Slip Op 04940 [41 AD3d 1199]
June 8, 2007
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 15, 2007


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Francis Bald, Appellant.

—[*1] David J. Farrugia, Public Defender, Lockport (Mary-Jean Bowman of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Matthew J. Murphy, III, District Attorney, Lockport (Thomas H. Brandt of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Niagara County Court (Peter L. Broderick, Sr., J.), rendered September 23, 2005. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of sexual abuse in the first degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed (see People v Hidalgo, 91 NY2d 733, 737 [1998]). Present—Hurlbutt, J.P., Centra, Fahey, Peradotto and Pine, JJ.