People v Bethea

People v Bethea 2007 NY Slip Op 09596 [46 AD3d 565] December 4, 2007 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Michael Bethea, Appellant.

—[*1] Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Jonathan Garvin of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard Joblove, Thomas S. Burka, and Tziyonah M. Langsam of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dowling, J.), rendered October 5, 2004, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly denied the defendant's untimely request for an in camera examination of the confidential informant (see People v Darden, 34 NY2d 177, 181 [1974]; People v Edwards, 95 NY2d 486 [2000]; People v Brown, 2 AD3d 1423, 1424 [2003]).

The defendant was afforded meaningful representation (see People v Henry, 95 NY2d 563, 565-566 [2000]; People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 714 [1998]; People v Rivera, 71 NY2d 705, 709 [1988]; People v Anderson, 305 AD2d 611, 612 [2003]). Schmidt, J.P., Rivera, Florio and Balkin, JJ., concur.