People v. Harris

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Tisch, J.), rendered February 26, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant challenges the qualifications of the People’s expert witness, a document examiner, claiming he was incompetent to testify as a matter of law to the effect that the defendant wrote the note used to demand money in the course of the robbery. After a lengthy examination of the expert witness and in response to the court’s inquiry, defense…