People v. Diggins

*267Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berk-man, J.), rendered December 14, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

In his statement to the police, defendant claimed that he accidentally shot the victim as a result of defendant’s unfamiliarity with revolvers, as opposed to semiautomatic pistols, and a material issue…