People v. Guerra

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (William T. Martin, J.), rendered February 6, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 8 Vs to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant shot the complainant twice, in the back, at close range. The complainant and an independent eyewitness, both of whom had known defendant from the neighborhood, identified defendant as the shooter. Defendant’s claims of improper bolstering of the identification testimony of the People’s witnesses were not…