People v Willy Calderon

People v Calderon 2004 NY Slip Op 02130 [5 AD3d 276] March 23, 2004 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, May 26, 2004

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Willy Calderon, Appellant.

—Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), rendered February 10, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fifth degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 4½ to 9 years, unanimously dismissed.

Since defendant has been deported, he is not presently available to obey the mandate of the court in event of affirmance (see People v Reyes, 292 AD2d 271 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 701 [2002]). Accordingly, his appeal is dismissed. Were we not dismissing the appeal, we would find that the verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning identification and credibility. Concur—Nardelli, J.P., Mazzarelli, Saxe and Friedman, JJ.