People v. Alvarado

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered August 14, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. On the contrary, the evidence was overwhelming, particularly in light of the compelling circumstantial evidence. There is no basis upon which to disturb the jury’s determinations concerning credibility. The jury could have readily concluded that the stabbing victim’s efforts to…