People v. Taylor

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered June 9, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 10 years and 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for a mistrial based on a witness’s inadvertent references to an uncharged crime was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Ortiz, 54 NY2d 288, 292), in light of the absence of bad faith on the part of the prosecutor, the striking of…