People v. Johnson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered October 14, 1999, convicting her of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We agree with the defendant’s contention that the Supreme Court erred in permitting the People to introduce a portion of her testimony from an earlier trial as evidence of flight. Although evidence of flight may be admitted to raise an inference of guilt even where it is ambiguous and does not exclude every possible innocent motive (see, People v…