People v Falls, 2018 NY Slip Op 06111 [164 AD3d 1362]

September 19, 2018

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Raiquan Falls, Appellant.

Thomas R. Villecco, Jericho, NY, for appellant.

David M. Hoovler, District Attorney, Goshen, NY (Robert H. Middlemiss of counsel), for respondent.

Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the County Court, Orange County (Craig Stephen Brown, J.), both rendered February 21, 2017, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree under indictment No. 15-578, and criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds under indictment No. 15-599, upon his pleas of guilty, and imposing sentences.

Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.

The County Court, at the request of defense counsel, conducted a hearing pursuant to CPL 730.30, at which the People presented the testimony of a psychiatrist and a psychologist, both of whom examined the defendant and found him to be competent to stand trial. It was not an improvident exercise of discretion for the court to have accepted their assessment ( see People v Phillips , 16 NY3d 510 , 517 [2011]). Chambers, J.P., Austin, Cohen and Duffy, JJ., concur..