People v. Edwards

280 A.D.2d 389, 720 N.Y.S.2d 782, 2001 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1725

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara Newman, J.), rendered December 1, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of arson in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant received meaningful representation (see, People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713-714; People v Hobot, 84 NY2d ). Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial as a result of his counsel’s failure to move to preclude one of several statements made by defendant to a fire marshal, since this statement was cumulative and the evidence of guilt was overwhelming. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Nardelli, Andrias, Ellerin and Saxe, JJ.