People v. Silva

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dowling, J.), rendered January 28, 1999, convicting him of assault in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree (two counts), menacing in the third degree, and harassment in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the defendant’s conviction of assault in the second degree to assault in the third degree; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court properly denied his…