People v. Rodriguez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Calabrese, J.), rendered May 4, 2001, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The law is well settled that the nature and extent of cross examination are matters within the trial court’s sound discretion (see People v Hudy, 73 NY2d 40, 56 [1988]; People v McGriff, 201 AD2d 672, 673 [1994]). Here, the trial court providently exercised its discretion in permitting the prosecutor…