People v. Quinones
Opinion of the Court
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of identity theft in the first degree (Penal Law § 190.80 [3]), defendant contends that the superior court information is jurisdictionally defective inasmuch as it fails to specify the “class D felony or higher level crime” that he committed or attempted to commit (id.). We reject that contention. “A superior court information is subject to the same rulés as an indictment . . . , and an indictment that states no more than the bare elements of the crime charged and, in effect, parrots the Penal Law is legally sufficient; the defendant may discover the particulars of the crime charged by requesting a bill of particulars” (People v Price, 234 AD2d 978, 978 [1996], lv denied 90 NY2d 862 [1997]; see People v Mackey, 49 NY2d 274, 278 [1980]). Here, the superior court information charging defendant with identity theft in the first degree in the language of the statute is legally sufficient (see People v Fitzgerald, 45 NY2d 574, 580 [1978], rearg denied 46 NY2d 837 [1978]; People v Iannone, 45 NY2d 589, 598-599 [1978]). The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe. Present — Centra, J.P., Fahey, Garni, Sconiers and Green, JJ.
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