People v. Thomas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George Daniels, J.), rendered March 9, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (two counts), assault in the first degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 16 years, unanimously affirmed.

The prosecutor properly cross-examined defendant and elicited rebuttal evidence concerning his unusual omission of material exculpatory information from the statement he made at his arrest for criminal trespass on the day before his arrest in…