Legal Opinion
People v. Rodriguez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 20, 1990PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered April 29, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of imprisonment of from 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.
We find defendant’s claim that he was denied a fair trial because the prosecutor, in his summation, improperly shifted the burden of proof, attacked the defendant’s credibility, vouched for the People’s witnesses and played upon the jury’s sympathies and fear of crime, to be unpreserved for the most part (see, CPL 470.05…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. CrimminsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- People v. NuccieNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- People v. MarksNew York Court of Appeals · 1959
- People v. LovelloNew York Court of Appeals · 1956
3Cited by15 opinions
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- People v. AlexanderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- People v. MolinaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- People v. NunezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- People v. TafurAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
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