People v. DiMaria

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert H. Straus, J.), rendered January 20, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to consecutive terms of 25 years to life and 4 to 8 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant challenges various rulings by the court that limited defendant’s elicitation of evidence in support of his justification defense. We conclude that each of these limitations was proper, and that there was no violation of defendant’s rights to confront…