People v. Fernandez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bionx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered January 14, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of six years and one year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). There is no basis *505for disturbing the jury’s determinations concerning credibility. Although it is uncontested that the complainant reached for the knife first, and…