People v. Greene

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Antonio Brandveen, J.), rendered February 22, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7V2 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s motion for a mistrial after a police officer inadvertently testified, contrary to the court’s prior ruling, that defendant said he had done “time before,” since the reference was brief and the court issued prompt curative…