People v. Hemphill

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Galligan, J.), rendered September 9, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the second degree, assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life on each conviction, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly exercised its discretion in restricting defendant’s re-cross-examination of one of the People’s police witnesses since defendant’s examination…