People v. Calber

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Mazur, J.), rendered July 7, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that the arresting officer impermissibly bolstered the victim’s identification testimony when he testified in Spanish that the victim told him, in Spanish, that defendant had robbed him. Inasmuch as the trial court’s inquiry of the jurors revealed that they did not understand the officer’s testimony, no…