People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Bart Stone, J.), rendered September 21, 2010, as amended September 28, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s mistrial motion, made on the ground that the prosecution violated its duty under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) by failing to disclose an alleg*497edly exculpatory document until after both sides had rested. Long before…