People v. Grandenetti

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard C. Failla, J., at suppression hearing, jury trial and sentence), rendered April 8, 1988, convicting defendant of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate violent felon, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

We reject defendant’s argument that the prosecutor, on summation, improperly vouched for the credibility of the People’s witness. The comments in question were appropriate since responsive to attacks made on the witness’s credibility by defense counsel in his own…