People v. Ingram

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John W. Carter, J.), rendered March 14, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The record fails to support defendant’s assertion that the court precluded him from impeaching the credibility of a police witness by way of prior bad acts. The court correctly precluded inquiry regarding the existence of a federal lawsuit in which the officer was one of the named defendants, because the mere existence…