People v. Clanton

*178Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered August 6, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s admonitions to defense counsel to desist from making summation-like arguments, and to confine her opening statement to what she intended to prove, did not shift the burden of proof, especially since the court thoroughly instructed the jury that the defense did not have to make an opening statement and that the burden of proof…