| People v Salgado |
| 2010 NY Slip Op 00996 [70 AD3d 864] |
| February 9, 2010 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v CesarSalgado, Appellant. |
—[*1] Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Nicoletta J.Cafferri, and William H. Branigan of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum,J.), rendered June 5, 2007, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminalpossession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The nature and extent of cross-examination is subject to the sound discretion of the trialjudge (see People v Schwartzman, 24 NY2d 241, 244 [1969], cert denied 396 US846 [1969]). Here, contrary to the defendant's contention, defense counsel's cross-examination ofthe complainant was not improperly curtailed or restricted (see People v Macuil, 67 AD3d 1025 [2009]; People v Martin, 33 AD3d 1024[2006]).
Moreover, the Supreme Court properly precluded the defendant from displaying certainscarring on his legs to the jury (see generally People v Aska, 91 NY2d 979, 981 [1998];People v Bowen, 67 AD3d1022 [2009]; People v Martin,27 AD3d 665 [2006]). Rivera, J.P., Dickerson, Chambers and Hall, JJ., concur.