People v. Evans

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered June 26, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees and assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12, 7, and 5 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant claims that the People improperly impeached their own witness under the guise of refreshing the witness’s recollection by means of his Grand Jury testimony, and that the contents of that Grand Jury testimony were thereby revealed to the jury.…