People v. West

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J.), rendered August 13, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 12 years to life, to run consecutively with a sentence of 2 to 4 years under an unrelated New York County conviction for grand larceny in the fourth degree, unanimously affirmed.

After he had been threatened the previous night, the complaining witness failed to identify the defendant in court. The trial court interrupted the direct examination of the complainant to…