People v. Leon-Ramos

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered March 12, 2004, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues that he was deprived of a fair trial by the trial court’s refusal to inquire, outside the jury’s presence, about a conversation between two of the prosecution’s witnesses, which occurred during a brief recess immediately after the first witness’s testimony and just prior to…