People v. Franklin

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J., at initial request for psychiatric examination; John Cataldo, J., at subsequent requests, jury trial and sentence), rendered July 31, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 years and 3½ to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Each of the courts that ruled on the issue properly exercised its discretion in denying defense counsel’s request for an examination of defendant…