People v. Sampson

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George R. Vil-legas, J.), rendered March 28, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree as a hate crime, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s arguments concerning the sufficiency and weight of the evidence, in which he highlights discrepancies in the victim’s account of the crime, and defendant’s challenge to the admissibility of an alleged prior consistent statement, are substantially similar to arguments this Court rejected on a…