People v. Valentin

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered February 19, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of assault in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 3 Vi to 7 years on each assault count and 1 year on the weapon count, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s contention that he was deprived of a fair trial by the court’s castigation of defense counsel and curtailment of counsel’s opening statement is without merit.…