People v. Smith

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Cotter, J.), rendered July 25, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s contention that he was denied his rights to present a defense, to confrontation, and to effective cross-examination by the trial court’s ruling precluding the defense counsel from cross-examining the detectives regarding their method of obtaining a statement from…