People v. Grant

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J.), rendered August 2, 2006, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the instrument he possessed, a bent MetroCard, did not satisfy the forgery statute is essentially a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence before the grand *590jury and is foreclosed by his guilty plea (People v Taylor, 65 NY2d 1 [1985]; People v Greeman, 49 AD3d…