People v. Torain

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Carroll, J.), rendered April 28, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the court erred by charging the jury that the People did not have the burden to prove motive, and by refusing to charge that the jury could consider motive *323or lack of motive in their deliberation. While the court…