People v. Banks

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered December 6, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the court’s interjection of certain questions and comments. The court “acted within reasonable limits to clarify confusing questions and testimony and to elicit relevant facts” (People v Rivera, 201 AD2d 385, 386, Iv denied 83 NY2d 914).

The court properly refused defendant’s request…