People v. Keogh
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Seewald, J.), rendered August 29, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 8 to 24 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s claims of prosecutorial misconduct were not preserved for appellate review, and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review, we would find them to be without merit. Since defense counsel had referred to defendant’s in-court demonstration of the stabbing incident to discredit the testimony of the People’s witness, the…
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