People v. Johnson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Judgment of conviction rendered May 19, 1999 affirmed.

Defendant’s present objection to the court’s apparent failure to formally arraign him on the prosecutor’s information, to the extent reviewable without timely protest below (compare, People v White, 115 Misc 2d 800, 804-805; see also, People v Casey, 95 NY2d 354), is lacking in merit. Since the prosecutor’s information added no new charges and merely tracked the nonfelony offenses contained in the original accusatory instrument on which defendant was properly arraigned, the absence of a formal arraignment on the…