People v. Alvarado

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Cataldo, J.), rendered July 15, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 12 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Although the court should have permitted defendant to introduce the original civilian complainant’s hospital records demonstrating his alleged intoxication into evidence, the error was harmless under the standards for constitutional or nonconstitutional error (see People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230 [1975]). There was…