People v. Pitts

*846Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Collini, J.), rendered May 3, 2005, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court’s supplemental instruction and Allen charge (see Allen v United States, 164 US 492 [1896]), read as a whole, struck a fair balance between encouraging jurors to attempt to reach a unanimous verdict and not to abandon their conscientiously-held beliefs (see People v…