People v. Lemma

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Rettinger, J.), rendered May 11, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis upon which to disturb the jury’s determinations concerning credibility. Although defendant argues on appeal that the People’s evidence did not establish that he was the person who stabbed the victim, defendant admitted that…