Opinion
April 7, 1998
Appeal from Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Collins, J.).
The evidence was legally sufficient to establish defendant's guilt and the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. Issues of credibility were properly presented to the jury and we see no reason to disturb its findings (see, People v. Gaimari, 176 N.Y. 84, 94). The weight and sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury's verdict convicting defendant of resisting arrest was not undermined by defendant's acquittal of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and the jury's inability to reach a verdict on the other counts (People v. Thomas, 239 A.D.2d 246, lv denied 90 N.Y.2d 911). Defendant's "`masked repugnancy argument'" (People v. Rodriguez, 179 A.D.2d 554) "calls for an impermissible invasion of the jury's deliberative processes" (People v. Rivera, 201 A.D.2d 377, lv denied 83 N.Y.2d 875).
Concur — Milonas, J.P., Nardelli, Mazzarelli and Saxe, JJ.