People v. Vinent

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered May 22, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of two to four years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of vacating the second felony offender adjudication and remanding for resentencing, and otherwise affirmed.

In this gravity knife case, defendant’s challenge to the court’s instruction on the knowledge element of weapons possession is…