People v. Rivera

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Thorp, J.), rendered February 10, 1984, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contentions the court did not err by failing to charge the jury that two of the People’s witnesses were accomplices as a matter of law. The two witnesses in question were admittedly part of the group that planned the instant robbery; however, they…