Legal Opinion
People v. Colonna
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 21, 1987PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Lawrence, J.), rendered December 13, 1983, convicting him of robbery in the second degree and burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We find no basis to conclude that the defendant was deprived of a fair trial by the prosecutor’s remarks during summation. Although we disapprove of the prosecutor’s characterization of the defense theory as a "conspiracy” by the police to frame the defendant (see, People v Cowan, 111 AD2d 343), the remarks were…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- People v. MitchellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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