People v. Papas

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Del Giudice, J.), rendered May 17, 2010, convicting him of attempted assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the Supreme Court improperly curtailed defense counsel’s summation argument regarding the lack of a motive. While we agree that the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in sustaining the prosecutor’s objections to the argument (see generally People v Ashwal, 39 NY2d 105, 109 [1976]; People v…