People v. Dillard

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ira Globerman, J.), rendered July 12, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 11 to 22 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in imposing reasonable limits upon defendant’s excessively lengthy cross-examination of the victim (see, People v Schwartzman, 24 NY2d 241, cert denied 396 US 846). The court properly precluded questions that were repetitive, defective in form, and irrelevant, and provided defendant with ample…