People v. Pruna
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, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered January 10, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial by prosecutorial error on summation. We disagree. The majority of the prosecutor’s summation arguments were made in direct response to the summation arguments of defense counsel and constituted fair comment on the evidence (see, People v Miller, 143 AD2d 1055;…
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