People v Bristol
2012 NY Slip Op 08325 [101 AD3d 743]
December 5, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 6, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Brent Bristol, Appellant.

[*1] Evelyn K. Isaac, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., for appellant.

Janet DiFiore, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Hae Jin Liu, Laurie G. Sapakoff, and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.

Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Cacace, J.), both rendered May 3, 2011, convicting him of rape in the third degree under indictment No. 10-01243 and criminal contempt in the first degree under indictment No. 10-01294, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentences. Assigned counsel has submitted a brief in accordance with Anders v California (386 US 738 [1967]), in which she moves for leave to withdraw as counsel for the appellant.

Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.

We are satisfied with the sufficiency of the brief filed by the defendant's assigned counsel pursuant to Anders v California (386 US 738 [1967]), and, upon an independent review of the record, we conclude that there are no nonfrivolous issues which could be raised on appeal. Counsel's application for leave to withdraw as counsel is, therefore, granted (see Anders v California, 386 US 738 [1967]; Matter of Giovanni S. [Jasmin A.], 89 AD3d 252 [2011]; People v Paige, 54 AD2d 631 [1976]; cf. People v Gonzalez, 47 NY2d 606 [1979]). Mastro, J.P., Skelos, Chambers and Sgroi, JJ., concur.