People v Nieves
2009 NY Slip Op 04970 [63 AD3d 541]
June 18, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 5, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Alberto Nieves, Appellant.

[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Jan Hoth of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J.), rendered June 25, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3½ to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The prosecutor was not required to provide the grand jury with a circumstantial evidence charge. Even where the evidence is wholly circumstantial, a failure to charge the grand jury on circumstantial evidence does not impair the integrity of the proceeding (see People v Wooten, 283 AD2d 931, 932 [2001], lv denied 96 NY2d 943 [2001]).

The surcharges and fees were properly imposed (see People v Guerrero, 12 NY3d 45 [2009]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Catterson, Renwick, DeGrasse and Freedman, JJ.