People v. Lopez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura A. Ward, J.), rendered May 8, 2008, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of three to six years, unanimously affirmed.

*626The court properly declined to submit to the jury the issue of whether a prosecution witness was an accomplice, whose testimony would thus require corroboration (see CPL 60.22). The testimony of the victim as well as the surveillance video provided no reasonable basis to find that the witness, who denied any involvement, acted as an…