People v. Chico

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

Defendant appeals, pursuant to permission granted by a Justice of the Appellate Division, from an order of that Court (233 AD2d 245) affirming defendant’s conviction, after a non-jury trial, of two counts of hindering prosecution in the first degree (see, Penal Law § 205.65). At issue is the legal sufficiency of the evidence presented by the prosecution to sustain the conviction and, more specifically, whether statements made by defendant and relied upon by the trial court were sufficiently corroborated under CPL 60.50.

At trial, the prosecution introduced the…