Opinion
February 7, 2001.
Appeal from Judgment of Monroe County Court, Bristol, J. — Attempted Assault, 1st Degree.
PRESENT: PIGOTT, JR., P.J., GREEN, HAYES, SCUDDER AND KEHOE, JJ.
Judgment 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 record, we conclude that County Court did not fail to give the evidence the weight it should be accorded when it credited the testimony of the complainant and his father and rejected the testimony of defendant's alibi witnesses ( see, People v. Aliotta, 176 A.D.2d 1198; see also, People v Melendez, 213 A.D.2d 1037). The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.