People v. Drakes

—Appeal by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Leventhal, J.), both rendered October 8, 1996, as amended October 29, 1996, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree under Indictment No. 5677/95, and attempted murder in the second degree, tampering with a witness in the first degree, assault in the first degree (two counts), criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, coercion in the first degree, tampering with a witness in the second…