People v. Suarez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter Benitez, J.), rendered June 17, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly precluded defendant from eliciting from an officer that, upon his arrest, defendant requested that a fingerprint analysis be performed on the imitation pistol in question. In any event, the court’s ruling could not have caused defendant any prejudice, particularly…