People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered July 30, 2008, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth and seventh degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent felony, to an aggregate term of 2V2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The People’s summation did not deprive defendant of a fair trial. The remarks challenged by defendant generally constituted evidence-based arguments as to why the jury should credit the testimony of the prosecution witnesses and…