People v. Caines

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Elbert Hinkson, J.), rendered July 3, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life and 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

We find the evidence of guilt to be legally sufficient, and, indeed, overwhelming. Although the trial court improperly limited the cross-examination of one of the People’s main witnesses by precluding cross-examination regarding the underlying facts of a youthful offender…