People v. Rivera (Gasper)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

against

Gasper Rivera, Defendant-Appellant.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Abraham L. Clott, J.), rendered March 24, 2011, after a nonjury trial, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and imposing sentence.

Judgment of conviction (Abraham L. Clott, J.), rendered March 24, 2011, affirmed.

The misdemeanor information charging fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon (see Penal Law § 265.01[1]), was not jurisdictionally defective. The…