People v Stevens
2011 NY Slip Op 08303 [89 AD3d 577]
November 17, 2011
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Shakeya Stevens, Appellant.

[*1] Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York (Lucy Muzzy of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (David E.A. Crowley of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J.), rendered December 15, 2009, as amended December 18, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing her to a term of nine months, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's credibility determinations, including its resolution of alleged conflicts in testimony. The evidence established the requisite intent to defraud (see e.g. People v Rodriguez, 71 AD3d 450 [2010], affd 17 NY3d 486 [2011]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Acosta and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.