People v. Rivers

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered September 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7/2 to 15 years, 3 to 6 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in granting the People’s motion to preclude defendant from testifying that, at the time of the incident, his state of mind had been affected…