Opinion
(1579) KA 99-05539
December 21, 2001.
(Appeal from Adjudication of Supreme Court, Erie County, Rossetti, J. — Youthful Offender.)
PRESENT: PIGOTT, JR., P.J., HAYES, WISNER, SCUDDER AND BURNS, JJ.
Adjudication unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
We reject defendant's contention that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence. "In a bench trial, as in a jury trial, the credibility determinations made by the trier of fact are entitled to great deference" ( People v. Robinson, 272 A.D.2d 943, lv denied 95 N.Y.2d 870). Upon our review of the conflicting evidence, we cannot conclude that "the trier of fact has failed to give the evidence the weight it should be accorded" ( People v. Bleakley, 69 N.Y.2d 490, 495).