Legal Opinion

People v. Rivera

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 23, 1996PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered July 29, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 3½ to 7 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenges to the prosecutor’s summation are all unpreserved and, in any event, without merit. The comment that the police witnesses had no motive to lie was responsive to defense disparagement of police testimony; the…

2Cited by1 opinion

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