People v. Boykin

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), rendered September 7, 2003, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), and reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the County Court’s supplemental Allen charge (see Allen v United States, 164 US 492 [1896]) was coercive, imbalanced, and impermissibly shifted the burden of proof to him by requiring…