People v. Bracy

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered April 28, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of Assault in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree and sentencing him as a second violent felony offender to concurrent terms of 23A to 5Vz years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial evidence established that Michael Taylor borrowed a small sum of money from defendant, which defendant came to collect on September 16, 1988. Michael referred defendant to his brother, George Taylor, who had been given the money. When defendant…