People v Phillips (2025 NY Slip Op 03891)
People v Phillips
2025 NY Slip Op 03891 [239 AD3d 1420]
June 27, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 6, 2025


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Andrea Phillips, Appellant.

Larkin Ingrassia, PLLC, Newburgh (Derek S. Andrews of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney, Syracuse (Bradley W. Oastler of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Onondaga County Court (Thomas J. Miller, J.), rendered December 17, 2021. The judgment convicted defendant upon a jury verdict of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her following a jury trial of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree (Penal Law § 220.21 [1]) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (§ 220.16 [1]). Defendant was tried jointly with her codefendant son, and all of the issues raised by defendant were raised by the codefendant on his appeal (People v Phillips [Clifton], 239 AD3d 1021 [4th Dept 2025] [decided herewith]). We affirm for reasons stated in our decision therein. Present—Lindley, J.P., Montour, Ogden, Greenwood and Keane, JJ.