People v. Higgs

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Renee White, J.), rendered August 25, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years and 3 to 6 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court provided appropriate remedies when defendant inadvertently elicited, on cross-examination of a police witness, a statement by defendant that was less exculpatory than expected. An officer who responded to the scene of the shooting testified at trial…