Opinion
April 15, 1994
Appeal from the Niagara County Court, DiFlorio, J.
Present — Green, J.P., Balio, Fallon, Callahan and Boehm, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We reject defendant's contentions that the People failed to present sufficient evidence to corroborate the accomplice testimony (see, CPL 60.22; People v Campbell, 187 A.D.2d 945, lv denied 81 N.Y.2d 786) and that the People failed to present evidence legally sufficient to support the verdict. We further conclude that the verdict is not contrary to the weight of evidence (see, People v Bleakley, 69 N.Y.2d 490, 495).
Finally, there is no merit to the contention that the trial court erred in reinstating the last count of the indictment charging criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree. That count initially was dismissed at the conclusion of the fifth day of trial at the People's request based on the prosecutor's mistaken notion that the last count of the indictment was redundant. Before trial the next day, the prosecutor acknowledged that she was mistaken as to redundancy, and the trial court granted the prosecutor's application to reinstate that count. Contrary to defendant's contention, neither CPL 210.20 (1) nor CPL 290.10 precludes reinstatement of that count of the indictment under those circumstances.