People v McLaughlin
2010 NY Slip Op 03651 [72 AD3d 1602]
April 30, 2010
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 9, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Samuel A. McLaughlin, Appellant.

—[*1] David J. Farrugia, Public Defender, Lockport (Joseph G. Frazier of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Michael J. Violante, District Attorney, Lockport (Thomas H. Brandt of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Niagara County Court (Matthew J. Murphy, III, J.), rendered June 2, 2009. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed (see People v Lococo, 92 NY2d 825, 827 [1998]). Present—Centra, J.P., Carni, Lindley, Green and Gorski, JJ.