People v. Dawkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from *496a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Thorp, J.), rendered May 19, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant argues that the independent evidence tending to connect him to the crime, as required by CPL 60.22 (1), was legally insufficient to corroborate the testimony of his accomplice Gregory Baldwin. We disagree. The requisite independent proof need only connect the defendant to the commission of the crime;…
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