People v. Thompson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald Zweibel, J.), rendered March 23, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and coercion in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, 31h to 7 years and 2 to 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claims that the court improperly modified its Sandoval ruling to permit reference to a prior conviction involving a gun and that the prosecutor compelled defendant *240to characterize the People’s…