People v. Williams

216 A.D.2d 201, 628 N.Y.S.2d 660, 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6959

Opinion

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered June 18, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 31/2 to 7 years on the assault counts to run consecutively to a prison term of 1 year on the weapon count, unanimously affirmed.

There is no merit to defendant’s contention that the trial court improperly limited his cross-examination of the complaining witness concerning, inter alia, his perception of violence in the neighborhood and whether he had ever used and carried a box cutter. The questions were not relevant, and defense counsel was otherwise afforded sufficient scope to prove the defense of justification (see, People v Smith, 205 AD2d 458, lv denied 84 NY2d 872). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Kupferman, Ross and Williams, JJ.