People v Murtha
2011 NY Slip Op 09383 [90 AD3d 1504]
December 23, 2011
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 1, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Robert Murtha, Appellant.

—[*1] Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse (Philip Rothschild of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, Syracuse (Susan C. Azzarelli of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Onondaga County Court (William D. Walsh, J.), rendered February 26, 2008. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree (two counts), endangering the welfare of a child (three counts), attempted assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed (see People v Hidalgo, 91 NY2d 733, 737 [1998]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Smith, Green, Gorski and Martoche, JJ.