People v. Ducret

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J.), rendered April 1, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of resisting arrest, and sentencing him to a term of one year, unanimously affirmed.

When the existence of an unrelated lawsuit against one of the police witnesses came to light during trial, the court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s request for a midtrial adjournment of unspecified length for the purpose of obtaining additional information relating to the lawsuit and its underlying facts (see e.g. People v Dunnell, 63 AD3d 535, 536 [2009],…