People v. Green

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J.), rendered June 12, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a determinate term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Reading the court’s instruction as a whole, we conclude that the court did not undermine defendant’s ability to present his defense of no forcible taking, nor did it evince a disbelief in defendant’s trial testimony, when it charged the jury that “claim of right” was not a defense in this case. A fair reading of the record…