People v. Culbero
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered March 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder in the second degree and four counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life on the murder convictions, to run consecutively to concurrent terms of SVs to 25 years on the robbery convictions, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s mistrial motions based on allegedly inflammatory remarks by two prosecution witnesses. These remarks were not unduly…
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