People v. Vale

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Calabretta, J.), rendered March 27, 1990, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, leaving the scene of an accident without reporting, and failure to obey a traffic control signal, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We disagree with the defendant’s contention that the Trial Judge’s questioning of defense witnesses, as well as certain comments he made during the trial, denied him a fair trial.

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