People v. Staples

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered March 11, 1982, convicting him of attempted robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. U Judgment affirmed. 11 At trial, the victim made a positive identification of the defendant as the person who attempted to rob him at gunpoint on December 27, 1980. The defendant did not testify but presented four alibi witnesses. H Although the trial court’s charge to the jury was improper in that it instructed the jury to most carefully scrutinize the evidence relating to the…