People v. Chi Yuan Hwang

*246Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Stack-house, J.), rendered November 7, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of five years probation, with a $1,000 fine on each count and restitution to be determined separately, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in its Molineux (People v Molineux, 168 NY 264 [1901]) rulings. All of the evidence at issue was relevant to defendant’s motive and intent, as well as tending to dispel the notion…