Legal Opinion
People v. Rivera
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 28, 1988PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Irving Lang, J.), rendered May 2, 1986, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him as a second felony offender to an indeterminate term of from 4 Vi to 9 years’ imprisonment, is affirmed.
Defendant raises only one point on this appeal: that certain remarks by the prosecutor represented an appeal to racial bias and require reversal. The remarks were made during the summations of this very brief trial, at the center of which was the credibility of the complainant’s identification of defendant. Alex…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. MatthewsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969
- People v. LowranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1975
- People v. ArmstrongAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969
3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. AliAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- People v. WilliamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- People v. DominguezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- People v. DienAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- People v. CarreroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
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