People v. Ceballo

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (itonald Zweibel, J.), rendered February 8, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of four counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that he was denied a fair trial by two aspects of alleged prosecutorial misconduct: (i) prejudicial cross-examination when defendant testified in his own behalf, and (ii) an improper summation that misrepresented and distorted the defense case. Neither claim warrants reversal.

In two separate…