People v. Lynch

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered November 25, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, endangering the welfare of a child, and possession of burglar’s tools, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of two to four years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the prosecutor’s summation comments on defendant’s failure to make an exculpatory statement. The prosecutor did not make an improper reference to a defendant’s failure to speak or cooperate when…