People v. Semper

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered October 8, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly denied defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict on the ground of newly discovered evidencé, since such evidence did not create a probability of a more favorable verdict. The alleged weight discrepancy is trivial.

The court properly denied defendant’s challenge for cause. The…