People v. Bosier

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered June 13, 2002, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to introduce prior grand jury testimony at trial to impeach the complainant’s subsequent grand jury testimony since the defendant procured the complainant’s unavailability as a witness through threats (see People v Geraci, 85 NY2d 359, 366…