People v. Cruz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (G. Aronin, J.), rendered August 31, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Although the prosecutor should not have asked the codefendant if he had ever previously killed anyone at the defendant’s request, a prompt objection to that question was sustained and the codefendant did not answer. This single isolated question did not deprive the defendant of a fair trial, and…
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