People v. Santana

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (West, J.), rendered August 15, 2001, *799convicting him of kidnapping in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Although a particular comment that the prosecutor made during her opening statement was improper (see People v Brosnan, 32 NY2d 254 [1973]; People v Kennedy, 216 AD2d 491 [1995]), any error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt (see People v…