The motion court dismissed the attempted dissemination counts on the ground that Penal Law § 235.22 covers only pictures, not words. However, in People v Kozlow, which involved this defendant's Westchester County conviction, the Court of Appeals held that a defendant may be convicted of attempted dissemination of indecent materials to minors in the first degree "even though his communications contained no nude or sexual images" (
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