People v. Fontanez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered May 24, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see, People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490). We see no reason to disturb the jury’s determinations concerning credibility and reliability of testimony (see, People v Gaimari, 176 NY 84, 94).

Defendant’s claim that the prosecutor’s cross-examination of a severed codefendant, testifying as a…