PEOPLE v. BROWN (2019)

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, New York,

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Michael BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

570287 /18

Decided: April 15, 2019

PRESENT: Shulman, P.J., Ling-Cohan, Edmead, JJ.

Judgment of conviction (Herbert J. Moses, J.), rendered April 18, 2018, affirmed.

The accusatory instrument was not jurisdictionally defective. It charged all the elements of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree (see Penal Law § 170.20). Defendant's knowledge that the six $ 20 bills he possessed were counterfeit is reasonably inferred from allegations that the bills were printed on paper that is “inferior to that of a genuine bill,” the printing on the bills “does not match that of a genuine bill,” and the bills “do not contain the security features found on genuine bills” (see People v. Bogan, 80 AD3d 450, 451 [2011], lv denied 16 NY3d 856 [2011]; People v. Evans, 54 Misc 3d 129[A], 2016 NY Slip Op 51818[U] [App Term, 1st Dept 2016], lv denied 29 NY3d 948 [2017]; see also People v. Britt, 160 AD3d 428, 430 [2018], lv granted 31 NY3d 1145 [2018] ).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

Per Curiam.

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