Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994

People v. Wilson

People v. Wilson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 3, 1994
202 A.D.2d 209; 608 N.Y.S.2d 220; 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1850
People v. Wilson

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.), rendered February 4, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 4ti to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant was given fair notice of the charges and the *210People’s theory in the indictment and bill of particulars. The fact that his testimony also satisfied every requisite element of the charged crime under a different theory permitted supplemental jury instructions that the defendant could be found guilty on either the People’s theory or the alternative theory arising from defendant’s own testimony (People v Spann, 56 NY2d 469). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Ross, Asch, Rubin and Tom, JJ.

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