People v. Fuentes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Chun, J.), rendered August 18, 2014, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of á weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court’s Molineux ruling (see People v Molineux, 168 NY 264 [1901]) constituted a proper exercise of discretion. The evidence of the defendant’s prior possession and display of a weapon was probative of the defendant’s knowing possession of the weapon at the time of the crimes…