People v Confident
2011 NY Slip Op 03258 [83 AD3d 957]
April 19, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, June 8, 2011


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
John Confident, Appellant.

[*1] Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Joshua M. Levine of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Johnnette Traill, and Danielle Hartman of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (McGann, J.), rendered May 19, 2009, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and reckless driving, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620 [1983]), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant's guilt of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and reckless driving (see People v Verez, 83 NY2d 921, 924 [1994]; Matter of Tamara E., 19 AD3d 489, 490 [2005]; People v O'Brien, 212 AD2d 741, 742 [1995]; People v Scott, 199 AD2d 436 [1993]; People v Hines, 173 AD2d 730, 730-731 [1991]). Moreover, upon our independent review pursuant to CPL 470.15 (5), we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633 [2006]). Skelos, J.P., Belen, Lott and Cohen, JJ., concur.