People v Shomari Laviscount

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People v Laviscount 2006 NY Slip Op 03605 [29 AD3d 604] May 2, 2006 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, July 19, 2006

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Shomari Laviscount, Appellant.

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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kron, J., at trial; Griffin, J., at sentence), rendered September 25, 2003, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The evidence of the defendant's alleged attempted carjacking committed against the complainant was properly admitted as evidence of motive and to explain the defendant's subsequent commission of the charged crimes (see People v Till, 87 NY2d 835 [1995]).

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit. Schmidt, J.P., Krausman, Mastro and Covello, JJ., concur.

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