People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Although defendant claims that the court unduly restricted his efforts to elicit relevant evidence on cross-examination of prosecution witnesses and during his own testimony, in each instance but one, defendant…