People v. Henriquez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael J. Obús, J.), rendered September 8, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court providently exercised its discretion when it denied defendant’s request for missing witness charges concerning three eyewitnesses to the stabbing. The People sufficiently established that the victim’s half brother,…