People v. Martinez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J., at suppression hearing; John Stackhouse, J., at trial and sentence), rendered May 31,1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 31/2 to 7 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s right to present a defense was not improperly impeded by the court’s ruling permitting the People to introduce evidence of defendant’s prior assault…