People v. Lighty

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Kuffner, J.), rendered July 26, 1991, convicting the defendant of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reversing the conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as.so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

It is well settled that in order to have a valid accusatory…