People v. Suarez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Fuchs, J.), rendered April 27, 1984, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
There is no requirement that a trial court instruct the jury that the prosecution’s witnesses are interested as matter of law. It is proper for a trial court to charge that a defendant is an interested witness (see, People v Ochs, 3 NY2d 54, 56; People v Stokes, 117 AD2d 693, 694), provided the court also indicates that…
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