People v. Perkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment following a jury trial convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Defendant contends that three instances of prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial; that the brief absence of the Trial Judge from the courtroom during voir dire constitutes reversible error; and that the court erred in refusing to charge criminally negligent homicide as a lesser included offense of murder in the second degree.
The comments of the prosecutor during voir…
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