PEOPLE v. LONG (2008)

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldberg, J.), rendered June 27, 2005, convicting him of attempted robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and vacating the sentence imposed thereon;  as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (see Penal Law former § 265.02[4] ) must be vacated as that count of the indictment had been dismissed by another judge prior to trial and was later mistakenly considered by the Supreme Court (see People v. Flores, 43 A.D.3d 955, 841 N.Y.S.2d 633;  People v. Romero, 309 A.D.2d 953, 766 N.Y.S.2d 369;  People v. Smiley, 303 A.D.2d 425, 755 N.Y.S.2d 870).

The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are without merit.