People v. Bojku

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerome Hornblass, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered December 17, 1985, which convicted defendant of attempted murder in the second degree and sentenced him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 4 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant did not demonstrate an adequate factual basis to support the claim that the court improperly restricted cross-examination of the complainant. Defendant sought to elicit testimony that he had been present in the complainant’s home nine years earlier, when officers interviewed the complainant in…