Argued April 24, 1996 Decided June 11, 1996 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, James W. McCarthy, J. Kimberly A. Jordan, Syracuse, for appellant. William J. Fitzpatrick, District Attorney of Onondaga County, Syracuse ( Gary T. Kelder and James P. Maxwell of counsel), for respondent. Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney of Kings County, Brooklyn, and Steven A. Hovani, Riverhead, for New York State District Attorneys Association, amicus curiae
No. 112. Argued May 3, 2011. Decided June 7, 2011. APPEAL, by permission of an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, entered May 18, 2010. The Appellate Division modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Alan D. Marrus, J.), which had convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree