People v. Rivera

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered April 25, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted assault in the first degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of nine years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s legal sufficiency claim is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits. We also find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342,…