People v. Kennedy

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered September 8, 1992, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree, attempted robbery in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

It was improper for the prosecutor to refer to the defendant in his opening statement as a "denizen of the night, dark hat, unkept, unshaven, dirty, disgusting, vile monster” (see, People v Brosnan, 32 NY2d 254).…