State of New York
Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Third Judicial Department
Decided and Entered: February 23, 2017 106445
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK,
Respondent,
v MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
TYSHEN MATTHEWS, Also Known as
TYSHEEN MOORE, Also Known
as NITTY,
Appellant.
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Calendar Date: January 9, 2017
Before: McCarthy, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Clark and Mulvey, JJ.
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Thomas F. Garner, Middleburgh, for appellant.
Kathleen B. Hogan, District Attorney, Lake George (Emilee
B. Davenport of counsel), for respondent.
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Lynch, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Washington
County (McKeighan, J.), rendered January 3, 2014, upon a verdict
convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the first
degree, robbery in the second degree, burglary in the second
degree, petit larceny and endangering the welfare of a child.
In June 2013, defendant was charged with robbery in the
first degree, robbery in the second degree, burglary in the
second degree, petit larceny, conspiracy in the fourth degree and
endangering the welfare of a child. County Court dismissed the
charge of conspiracy in the fourth degree as jurisdictionally
defective and, following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of
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the remaining charges. Defendant was thereafter sentenced to an
aggregate prison term of 20 years, followed by five years of
postrelease supervision. He now appeals.
Defendant argues that County Court failed to rule on that
aspect of his omnibus motion seeking inspection of the grand jury
minutes and dismissal of the indictment. As the People concede,
the record is devoid of a ruling upon the motion to inspect, as
is required by CPL 210.30 (5). Accordingly, we remit the matter
to County Court for a ruling on the record with respect to this
aspect of defendant's omnibus motion (see People v Blair, 121
AD3d 1570, 1571-1572 [2014]; People v Stewart, 111 AD3d 1395,
1396 [2013]; People v Jones, 103 AD3d 1215, 1217 [2013], lv
dismissed 21 NY3d 944 [2013]).
There is also no indication in the record that County Court
ruled on defendant's motion challenging the existence of probable
cause to justify his warrantless arrest. Although defendant did
not raise this issue in his omnibus motion or prior to the
conclusion of proof in the Wade/Huntley hearing, he did raise it
in what appears to be defense counsel's written summation after
the Wade/Huntley hearing. The People opposed defendant's
challenge to his warrantless arrest in their written summation,
but County Court did not resolve the issue in its decision
following the Wade/Huntley hearing, and there is no indication in
the record that the court ruled on it at a later time. Defendant
directed County Court's attention to the absence of a ruling on
his motion at a November 2013 pretrial conference and again at
the start of trial, to which County Court mistakenly stated that
the issue had been resolved in its decision on the Wade/Huntley
hearing. Inasmuch as the record does not reflect that County
Court ruled on defendant's motion challenging his warrantless
arrest, despite defendant's repeated attempts to alert County
Court to the absent ruling (compare People v Bigelow, 68 AD3d
1127, 1128 [2009], lv denied 14 NY3d 797 [2010]; People v Harley,
253 AD2d 699, 699 [1998], lv denied 92 NY2d 1032 [1998]), the
matter must also be remitted to County Court for it to set forth
on the record or in a written decision its determination on such
motion (see CPL 710.60 [6]; People v Mabeus, 47 AD3d 1073, 1074
[2008]; People v Brown, 263 AD2d 613, 614 [1999], lv denied 94
NY2d 877 [2000]). Pending County Court's determinations upon
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remittal, we withhold decision on the remaining issues raised by
defendant.
McCarthy, J.P., Egan Jr., Clark and Mulvey, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that the decision is withheld, and matter remitted
to the County Court of Washington County for further proceedings
not inconsistent with this Court's decision.
ENTER:
Robert D. Mayberger
Clerk of the Court