People v. Burgess

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura A. Ward, J.), rendered September 22, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (two counts), assault in the second degree and attempted coercion in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 13 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the assault conviction and remanding for further proceedings on that count, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant has not demonstrated that he was prejudiced by the lack of…