People v. Christie

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Stackhouse, J.), *38rendered July 30, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s request to have the testimony of a witness who testified at defendant’s first trial admitted into evidence since defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing that the witness could not “with due diligence be brought before the court” (CPL 670.10 [1]; People v Broome, 222 AD2d…