People v. Arnold

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered February 5, 1999, convicting defendant, after a non-jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4 to 8 years and 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

In this bench trial, the court did not err in directing that a police officer be called as the court’s witness for the purpose of *144clarifying testimony and satisfying itself as to the truth in its…