Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Edwin Ferrer, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-06-22
Citations: 262 A.D.2d 192
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Edwin Ferrer, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 262
Pages: 192–192

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Edwin Ferrer, Appellant.
[691 NYS2d 767]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Dominic Massaro, J.), rendered September 26, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to three concurrent terms of 3 to 6 years concurrent with a term of 1 year, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly refused to give a missing witness charge since the People made a reasonably diligent search for the witness (see, People v Rivera, 249 AD2d 141, lv denied 92 NY2d 904). Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Williams, Tom, Wallach and Buckley, JJ.