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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Benjamin Lopez, Appellant.
    [859 NYS2d 872]
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Loehr, J.), rendered June 11, 2007, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, menacing in the second degree, and attempted assault in the first degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Resolution of issues of credibility is primarily a matter to be determined by the factfinder, which saw and heard the witnesses, and its determination should be accorded great deference on appeal (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633, 644-645 [2006]; People v Mateo, 2 NY3d 383, 410 [2004], cert denied 542 US 946 [2004]). Upon the exercise of our factual review power (see CPL 470.15 [5]), we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt of attempted assault in the first degree was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633 [2006]).

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the sentence imposed on the conviction of attempted assault in the first degree was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80, 85-86 [1982]). Rivera, J.P., Fisher, Lifson and Dillon, JJ., concur.