People v. Dickson

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Albany County (Breslin, J.), entered May 9, 2011, which denied defendant’s motion pursuant to, among other things, CPL 440.30 (1-a) for the performance of forensic DNA testing on specified evidence.

In 2006, defendant was charged with stabbing the victim in *990her home in the City of Albany. Following a jury trial in which defendant presented defenses of justification and self-defense, he was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and assault in the second degree and was sentenced to an aggregate prison term of six years with…