People v. Taylor

306 A.D.2d 887, 760 N.Y.S.2d 918, 2003 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6796

Opinion

—Appeal from a judgment of Supreme Court, Erie County (Pietruszka, J.), entered April 30, 2001, convicting defendant after a nonjury trial of, inter alia, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.

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

Memorandum: Contrary to the contention of defendant, Supreme Court did not abuse its discretion in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment in furtherance of justice pursuant to CPL 210.40 (1) based on his medical condition. “[T]erminal illness, even in cases where the diagnosis [is] far more certain and far more dire than the speculative prognosis here, will [not] per se permit a defendant to evade the consequences of his criminal behavior” (People v Baghai-Kermani, 221 AD2d 219, 221 [1995]; see People v McAlister, 280 AD2d 556 [2001], lv denied 96 NY2d 803 [2001]). Present — Pigott, Jr., P.J., Wisner, Scudder, Burns and Lawton, JJ.