People v. Rivera

*577Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Thomas A. Farber, J.), rendered May 16, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years, to be followed by five years of postrelease supervision, affirmed.

This crime resulted in a man’s death. However, the jury acquitted defendant of homicide charges, only convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Defendant’s appeal centers on two related issues: (1) the lack of language in the charge that…