People v. Cooper

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Yates, J.), rendered October 4, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant raised no objection to the court’s "two inference” instruction and, thus, his current claim is unpreserved as a matter of law (People v Brown, 220 AD2d 250, lv denied 87 NY2d 898). Moreover, there was no possibility of confusion where, immediately preceding the challenged portion of the charge, the jurors were…