People v. Yapor

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered March 19, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 12V2 to 25 years, 7V2 to 15 years and 2V3 to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

*362The evidentiary rulings challenged by defendant constituted appropriate exercises of discretion. When defendant elicited character testimony, the court properly permitted the People to ask the…