People v. Pearson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (DiBella, J.), rendered June 29, 2004, convicting him of attempted aggravated assault of a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and menacing in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the County Court erred in refusing to permit the admission into evidence of his statement to police made 12 hours after the crime. He also argues that the County Court improperly precluded his grandmother from…