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10 A.D.3d 369

People v. Land

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 2004-08-02

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Decided 2004-08-02

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¶1Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Lange, J.), rendered May 3, 2002, convicting him of promoting prostitution in the third degree (two counts), after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

¶2Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the defendant’s convictions for promoting prostitution in the third degree to convictions for promoting prostitution in the fourth degree, and vacating the sentences imposed; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the County Court, Westchester County, for resentencing.

¶3The evidence was legally insufficient to establish that the defendant managed, supervised, controlled, or owned the subject prostitution enterprise (see Penal Law § 230.25). The uncontroverted testimony showed that the defendant was merely a security guard at the club and was insufficient to establish the “managerial or controlling role required by the section under which he was convicted” (People v Davilla, 110 AD2d 545, 546 [1985]). However, the evidence was legally sufficient to establish that the defendant knowingly advanced or profited from prostitution (see Penal Law § 230.20). Krausman, J.P., Schmidt, Cozier and Mastro, JJ., concur.

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