People v. Lixiong Zhao

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered October 16, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 2 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

Where the fact that defendant spoke Cantonese was undisputedly relevant to the issue of identity, the court did not violate any of defendant’s constitutional rights when it informed the jury, at the People’s request, that defendant was using a Cantonese interpreter at trial (see, People v Gomez, 84 Ill App 3d 785, 788-790, 406 NE2d 886, 889-890;…