People v. Soto
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), rendered August 30, 2000, convicting him of assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in declining to, sua sponte, order a fourth competency examination (see CPL 730.30 [1]; People v Tortorici, 92 NY2d 757 [1999], cert denied 528 US 834 [1999]; People v Eherts, 21 AD3d 905 [2005]; People v Morgan, 87 NY2d 878 [1995]). The court was entitled to give weight to the findings and…
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