People v. Dinardo

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ralph A. Fabrizio, J.), rendered July 19, 2010, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him to a term of 90 days, unanimously affirmed.

The accusatory instrument was not jurisdictionally defective. The misdemeanor complaint, which in this case was required to meet the standards that apply to an information, sufficiently alleged constructive possession of drugs. Giving the complaint “a fair and not overly restrictive or technical reading” (People v Casey, 95 NY2d…