People v. Thorpe

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Quinones, J.), rendered August 8, 1994, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We disagree with the defendant’s contention that the trial court improperly impeded his ability to present his justification defense by curtailing his cross-examination of a prosecution witness. Although a criminal defendant is guaranteed the right to confront all adverse witnesses through cross-examination (see, Delaware v Van Arsdall, 475 US…