People v. Gatto (Pamela)

People v Gatto (2021 NY Slip Op 50428(U)) [*1] People v Gatto (Pamela) 2021 NY Slip Op 50428(U) [71 Misc 3d 136(A)] Decided on May 14, 2021 Appellate Term, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. Decided on May 14, 2021 SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, FIRST DEPARTMENT PRESENT: Higgitt, J.P., Brigantti, Hagler, JJ. 570571/19 People of the State of New York, Respondent, against Pamela Gatto, Defendant-Appellant. Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Laurie Peterson, J.), rendered December 19, 2018, convicting her, upon her plea of guilty, of criminal trespass in the second degree, and imposing sentence. Per Curiam. Judgment of conviction (Laurie Peterson, J.), rendered December 19, 2018, affirmed. In view of defendant's knowing waiver of the right to prosecution by information, the accusatory instrument only had to satisfy the reasonable cause requirement of a misdemeanor complaint (see People v Dumay, 23 NY3d 518, 522 [2014]). So viewed, theinstrument was jurisdictionally valid because it described facts of an evidentiary nature establishing reasonable cause to believe that defendant was guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree (see Penal Law § 140.15[1]). The instrument recited that at 9:18 a.m. on November 27, 2018, defendant entered complainant's room at a specified location, while complainant was "not in the room" and without complainant's "permission or authority to enter." These allegations were sufficient for pleading purposes to establish that defendant knowingly entered or remained unlawfully in complainant's room when she was not licensed or privileged to do so (see Penal Law § 140.00[5]; People v Graves, 76 NY2d 16, 20 [1990]; People v Oliveros, 69 Misc 3d 130[A] [2020]; 2020 NY Slip Op 51161[U] [App Term, 1st Dept 2020]). Defendant's challenge to the legal sufficiency of the burglary charge contained in the felony complaint, which the court dismissed as part of defendant's plea, is unavailing, since defendant is not aggrieved by alleged defects in felony charges that were dismissed on the People's motion as part of the plea (see CPL 470.15[1]; People v Ruiz, 146 AD3d 417 [2017], lv denied 28 NY3d 1188 [2017]). THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT. I concur I concur I concur Decision Date: May 14, 2021